The Comet Explosion That Shattered Climates and Caused Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago
Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...
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As the Taurid meteor shower passes by Earth, pseudoscience rains down – and obscures a potential real threat from space
This was the Tunguska event – an airburst from an object that may have been up to 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter. The ...
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As the Taurid meteor shower passes by Earth, pseudoscience rains down – and obscures a potential real threat from space
This was the Tunguska event – an airburst from an object that may have been up to 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter. The collision unleashed several megatons of energy, which is roughly the ...
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As the Taurid meteor shower passes by Earth, pseudoscience rains down – and obscures a potential real threat from space
The Tunguska event But even outlandish ideas can have elements of truth, and there are hints that some objects – more than just dust and debris, but less than doomsday size – indeed exist in ...
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The last major asteroid to hit Earth destroyed 500 square kilometers — and it could have been much worse
The Tunguska meteor that hit the Earth in 1908 — the largest known natural object to enter the planet’s atmosphere ever — flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest. Even though the ...
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Two Huge Asteroids Are Approaching Us; One Among The Largest Near Earth
NEOs are objects that come within about 28 million ... The date also commemorates the 1908 Tunguska Event in which an asteroid struck a remote part of Siberia, obliterating over 80 million trees.