Meteor crashes into the ocean and no one noticed, did it really happen?
NASA has revealed that a massive meteor crashed into the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month with the force equivalent to an atomic bomb. However, nobody even noticed that it had actually happened.
Despite having the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb (around 13,000 tons of TNT), this particular fireball was actually pretty small, exploding over the South Atlantic Ocean on February 6.
So why did nobody know it happened? Well, the earth is mostly water, and even where there’s land, most of it is not populated. That’s why there’s a small chance of meteors actually causing damage to cities and people. Despite worries of population overcrowding, the human race is not as big a target for potentially devastating meteors as we'd like to think.
However, NASA still runs the Near Earth Object Program, an initiative which tracks thousands of objects which could potentially collide with Earth over the next 100 years.