360° Video: Chelyabinsk Meteor | California Academy of Sciences

Make an explosive entry into Earth’s atmosphere in this stereoscopic 360° video of the Chelyabinsk meteor’s arrival in February 2013—an immersive scene from our new planetarium show, “Incoming!” For decades, we have detected explosive airbursts caused by meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere. The most powerful one took place on February 15, 2013, over the Russian city Chelyabinsk, and we have reconstructed that event using observational data. A stony meteor almost 20 meters in diameter (slightly smaller than