It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

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Most people think of an asteroid impact as one that leaves behind a crater. The Tunguska Event, however, didn’t. Instead, scientists believe the rock exploded once it crashed through the Earth ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start worrying?

“It needs to be monitored but does not pose a threat that people need to be losing sleep ... roughly the same size as one that exploded over Tunguska in Siberia in 1908.

It also fits into the range of sizes and energies that scientists ascribe to the Tunguska impact in 1908, which flattened trees and blasted reindeer but killed no people. In other words ...

It smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured more than a thousand people. But YR4, is a bit bigger, at 40-90 meters in diameter, about the size of jumbo jet, similar to the Tunguska asteroid.

In 1908, a 98-foot-wide asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian ... 7,000 buildings and injuring more than 1,000 people. But if 2024 YR4 is on the larger end, the ...