RCI Joint Lecture: The Chelyabinsk Airburst Decoded: Impact Hazards

The impact hazard from small asteroids is uncertain because of many poorly understood factors. These include how asteroids vaporize in the atmosphere together with the associated impact effects at the ground. The Chelyabinsk event gave scientists their first detailed instrumental data on a well observed, damage producing airburst.

I will describe what we have learned about the Chelyabinsk airburst in the year since it occurred and what it may tell us about future impacts onto the Earth.

Who can attend: everyone including non-members
Fee: free
Reservation not needed 
Organized by: The Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science, and the RASC Toronto Centre
Location: Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle, University of Toronto.