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Fireball explodes over Yushu, Qinghai

When: 23 Dec 2020
Where: Yushu, China
Sources: 2 public sources

Yushu in Qinghai, whose pre-dawn sky was lit by the December 2020 fireball Wikiwakhan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

A bright fireball lit the pre-dawn sky over Yushu in Qinghai on 23 December 2020 local time. NASA's fireball database logged the explosion at about 35 km altitude, and Chinese researchers called it the largest fireball recorded over China.

Sources

OfficialFireball and Bolide Data, 2020-12-22 23:23:28 UTC (31.9N 96.2E) (opens in a new tab)NASA JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies
OtherInfrasound detection and altitude estimation associated with the December 22, 2020 Yushu fireball (Cheng et al.) (opens in a new tab)Geoscience Letters (Springer Nature) / 2021-07-23

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