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==== Meteor entering events ==== [[File:Chelyabinsk meteor event consequences in Drama Theatre.jpg|thumb|Damage caused by [[Chelyabinsk meteor|a meteor shock wave]] ]] Shock waves are generated by meteoroids when they enter the Earth's atmosphere.<ref>Silber E.A., Boslough M., Hocking W.K., Gritsevich M., Whitaker R.W. (2018). Physics of Meteor Generated Shock Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere β A Review. Advances in Space Research, 62(3), 489-532 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.05.010</ref> The [[Tunguska event]] and the [[2013 Russian meteor event]] are the best documented evidence of the shock wave produced by a [[Meteoroid#Notable meteors|massive meteoroid]]. When the 2013 meteor entered into the Earth's atmosphere with an energy release equivalent to 100 or more kilotons of TNT, dozens of times more powerful than the [[Little Boy|atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima]], the meteor's shock wave produced damage as in a [[supersonic speed|supersonic]] jet's flyby (directly underneath the meteor's path) and as a [[detonation wave]], with the circular shock wave centred at the meteor explosion, causing multiple instances of broken glass in the city of [[Chelyabinsk]] and neighbouring areas (pictured).
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