Sightings2009

Bone airburst over Sulawesi, Indonesia

When: 8 Oct 2009
Where: Bone, Indonesia
Sources: 1 public source

Bone regency in South Sulawesi, where residents reported the 2009 blast and fireball Midori, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Residents near Bone in South Sulawesi reported a loud blast and fireball. NASA's NEO office said an undetected asteroid of about 5-10 m exploded in the atmosphere with roughly 50 kilotons of energy, recorded by 11 international infrasound stations.

Sources

OfficialAsteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia (opens in a new tab)NASA/JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies / 2009-10-23

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