According to a study carried out by Carlos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, from the Complutense University of Madrid, the explosion of large meteorites in the atmosphere could occur more frequently during certain times of the year.
The De la Fuente brothers measured 26 bursts that released energy greater than one kiloton of TNT between 2000 and 2014 thanks to data collected by infrasound sensors from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, an organization that tracks nuclear detonations in the Land.
For example, the meteorite that caused panic in early 2013 in Chelyabinsk (Russia), released about 500 kilotons, like 30 Hiroshima bombs. Seven other events described in the scientific literature were also taken into account. The result is that the meteor explosion pattern may not be totally random , especially in the Southern Hemisphere, which seems to record a greater number of these events between September and December . In the Northern Hemisphere the pattern is not so clear, although the Chelyabinsk event (which took place on February 15) could be related to another recorded at the same latitude on February 18, 2000, in the China Sea.
Spanish scientists acknowledge that the number of cases studied is not large enough to draw definitive conclusions, but they encourage other colleagues to explore this new avenue of research in order to protect us from future impacts.
