New Falling Star Touching On Sites On Google Maps

What amongst tonight's top of Asteroid 2012 DA14 together with a shooting star crashing into the Chelyabinsk share of Russian Federation early on this forenoon I've been spending means also much fourth dimension Googling celestial bodies today.

My searching on Google did plough upwardly this informative post service from the Google basis Blog nearly shooting star craters. The post service includes a link to a Thinklemon.com KML file of 172 shooting star acquit upon sites, amongst a size indicator for the largest ones. You tin role Google Maps or Google basis to browse the KML file. Here's a link to sentiment the listing using the Google basis browser plug-in within Google Maps.

Also See

• HeyWhatsThat: Close Asteroid Approach - a heaven map of Asteroid 2012 DA14's top of the basis for subsequently today.
• Impact Calculator. a Google Maps app that allows y'all to sentiment the potential size of an acquit upon crater, caused past times dissimilar sized asteroids, at dissimilar locations but about the world.
• 3d Asteroid Orbit Space Simulation - an amazing WebGL simulation that shows a sentiment of our solar system, amongst over 580,000 asteroids mapped.

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