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Apr 2013
14m 8s

The Chelyabinsk Meteor

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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In this talk Dr Ken Amor talks about the Chelyabinsk meteor, which entered Earths atmosphere over Russia on the 15th of February 2013. 
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