NASA scientist warns 'risk of asteroid impact is real' and 'consequences are huge'
In February 2013, a meteor measuring around 19 meters in diameter and weighing a whopping 12,000 tonnes sped toward Earth at ...
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‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Flying Between The Moon And Earth This Week In Rare Event
The asteroid appears to be about two to three times larger than the bolides that struck Russia in 1908 and 2013. The former flattened a large area of remote Siberian forest and may have been ...
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Mysterious craters exploded in Siberia’s permafrost. Scientists say they now know why
A series of hypotheses have emerged, including wilder theories like a meteor strike or even aliens ... complex geology of this specific slice of Siberia. It goes like this: beneath the ground ...
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When To See ‘Halloween Fireballs’ This Weekend As Taurid Meteors Peak
The Taurid swarm is thought to have caused the famous “Tunguska Event” on June 30, 1908, when 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest were flattened, likely by an asteroid impact.
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone
The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the Tunguska event in 1908 when a 50-metre asteroid exploded in the skies above Siberia. The Nadir asteroid was about the size of Bennu ...
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The Great Meteor of 1947
Little has been told of the small asteroid that three years ago crashed into a Siberian forest. A brief account of one of the most impressive natural events witnessed by man ...
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THE TUNGUSKA EVENT: This Is What Would Happen If Today's Flyby Asteroid Hit Earth
A 150-foot wide asteroid is expected to make a record-close ... scientists say it's about the same size as the one that hit Siberia more than 100 years ago on June 30, 1908.
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Why The Largest Asteroid Impact In Recorded History Still Puzzling
on June 30 near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia, "The Tunguska Event" occurred. The generally accepted theory is that either an asteroid or comet entered Earth's atmosphere and ...
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Siberian scientists searching for eyewitnesses of bright green meteor fall
Scientists in the Russian city of Irkutsk (Siberia) are searching for people ... and the Republic of Buryatia witnessed a bright green meteor soaring above Lake Baikal. It was later dubbed the ...