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Utah State's Space Dynamics Lab announced on Wednesday they would share StarFall, a meteor detection software.

StarFall, which is accessible via GitHub, detects bolides using NOAA's Geostationary Lightning Mapper.

The lab, a USU entity, provides student opportunities in STEM and other fields.

LOGAN — Shortly after first light on Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky before exploding with an estimated blast yield of up to 500 kilotons of TNT — far more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II.

Approximately 1,500 people from the Russian city of Chelyabinsk were injured — mostly caused by flying glass.

Meanwhile, thousands of buildings across the region were damaged.

The Chelyabinsk met

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