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The Tunguska event affected a thousand The Sikote-Alin meteorite shower was the largest
square kilometres of land, and over eighty meteorite shower in recent history.
million trees were burned and flattened.
Other notables …
Run! These aren’t
fireworks! At 10.30 a.m. on 12 February, 1947, a large
fireball was seen falling towards the earth in the
Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Primorye, Russia.
It was a meteorite. As the meteorite entered
the earth’s atmosphere it started breaking
into fragments and exploded violently
5.6 kilometres above the earth’s surface. A
thirty-two-kilometre-long smoke trail stayed in
the sky for two hours after the explosion.
Did you know?
Some scientists
believe that a
ten-kilometre-
wide asteroid
or comet hit
the earth about
sixty-five million
years ago and
killed all the
dinosaurs.
about 180 kilometres in diameter. It was created by an asteroid that was ten kilometres in diameter!
The Tunguska event affected a thousand The Sikote-Alin meteorite shower was the largest
square kilometres of land, and over eighty meteorite shower in recent history.
million trees were burned and flattened.
Other notables …
Run! These aren’t
fireworks! At 10.30 a.m. on 12 February, 1947, a large
fireball was seen falling towards the earth in the
Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Primorye, Russia.
It was a meteorite. As the meteorite entered
the earth’s atmosphere it started breaking
into fragments and exploded violently
5.6 kilometres above the earth’s surface. A
thirty-two-kilometre-long smoke trail stayed in
the sky for two hours after the explosion.
Did you know?
Some scientists
believe that a
ten-kilometre-
wide asteroid
or comet hit
the earth about
sixty-five million
years ago and
killed all the
dinosaurs.
about 180 kilometres in diameter. It was created by an asteroid that was ten kilometres in diameter!
