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[i]...astronomer Humberto Saballos said the meteorite could have broken off from the 2014RC asteroid which passed Earth at the same time.[/i]
[i]In some news reports, geophysicist Wilfried Strauch of Nicaragua's Institute of Earth Studies attributed the crater to a meteorite impact. However, NASA asteroid expert Don Yeomans, author of Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us, says that outside experts suspect the crater wasn't caused by an impact. "This event was separated by 13 hours from the close Earth approach of 2014 RC, so the explosion and the asteroid are unrelated," says Yeomans, because the Earth moves about 870,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) in 13 hours. "There was no obvious optical fireball or debris trail seen prior to the explosion, so it seems unlikely that the explosion in Nicaragua was related to a meteorite impact."[/i]
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