It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.
The object was discovered in late December as it ... according to NASA. In 1908, the Tunguska asteroid, which was a similar size, flattened trees over an area of about 1,250 miles after it ...
An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.
“The object is somewhere between 40 and 100 meters ... Russia, in 2013 and the Tunguska event in Siberia in 1908. The Tunguska event caused trees to blow over and ignited forest fires.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still ...
On June 30, 1908, at 7:14 am in central Siberia, local farmer Semen Semenov witnessed an extraordinary event: he described ...