As a meteorologist, I occasionally get asked if I study meteors.  And while rain and snow qualify as meteors under Aristotle’s original definition in Meteorologica back a long time ago, they aren’t meteors as astronomers define them now.  Today marks the anniversary of one of the most spectacular meteors that exploded near the surface of the earth in recent history near Tunguska in Siberia.

On June 30, 1908, an explosion over Siberia killed reindeer and flattened trees. But no crater was ever found. It may have been a small asteroid or perhaps a comet which exploded several miles above the surface.

You can read more about it at EarthSky at https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-tunguska-explosion.

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