The meteor sent a plume of debris into the atmosphere, which NASA tracked with satellites.
The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite aboard the Suomi NPP satellite was able to study the plume’s migration through the atmosphere. Observations from the satellite showed that the plume traveled approximately 2,600 miles (4,300 kilometers) east of the explosion site in one day. Four days after the impact, debris had traveled around the globe, back to Cheylabinsk.
