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Happy Meteor Day!

By Ryan Somma | Monday, June 30, 2008, 04:00 AM

It is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event, when a meteor exploded over Russia with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, leveling 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers. GrrlScientist has a great write-up of the incident and what we know about it.

Fallen Trees from the Tunguska Event
Fallen Trees from the Tunguska Event
Credit: Leonid Kulik expedition in 1927

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