Many of us have read or heard of the massive destruction likely caused by a meteor across eastern Siberia almost a century in June 1908. For many years it is has been somewhat unclear on what happened in that region and what the cause was. Early speculation was on a meteor that made an impact, but later research determined it was an aerial explosion of a meteor that created the widespread destruction of the Taiga forest in this remote desolate largely unpopulated region even today. Russian scientists still theorize it was a small comet that was the cause. Today's story reports research seems to indicate the heavenly body was probably much smaller than earlier believed as a result of studying the impact and extent of the damage.We had a near miss earlier this week of an asteroid hitting the earth, and that body was much larger than the astronomical "rock" that blew down hordes of trees in Siberia. Fortunately, this time it was a miss. Had there been in an impact on land the destruction would have been vast.
But someday an impact from a body of that size, perhaps larger, will occur.
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