The inability to find any meteorite, however, led to a century of speculation on the origins of the blast. The Tunguska event has spawned a wealth of science fiction that has fed outrageous theories.

While the meteorite that hit Siberia this morning was no where near the size of an asteroid, the numbers it generated are still pretty impressive. Skip to Article. Set weather.

Meteors & Meteor Showers Ancient zircon crystals shed light on 1 billion-year-old meteorite strike in Scotland. ... thought to have been caused by a meteor, flattened a Siberian taiga forest.

Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute, holds a piece of meteor recovered from the 2012 meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia at his office in Mountain View, Calif. on ...

The Tunguska event, a seismic blast that rocked a remote Siberian forest more than a century ago, is believed to have been caused by a meteor that exploded before it hit the ground.

A SPECIAL meteorite commission has been ap pointed by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to investi gate the traces of the large meteorite which fell in the Enisseisk district of Siberia on June 30, 1908.

A flashy claim from Russian scientists, that a Siberian meteorite crater holds "trillions of carats" of diamonds, may be far-fetched but it's not outside the realm of scientific possibility.

This article was originally published with the title “ More About the Great Siberian Meteorite ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 144 No. 5 (May 1931), p. 314 doi:10.1038 ...

Russian scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could revolutionize industry. IE 11 is not supported.

A mysterious blast in 1908, thought to have been caused by a meteor, flattened a Siberian taiga forest. This photo was taken in 1938, during an expedition by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, ...

The Great Siberian Meteorite. An Account of the Most Remarkable Astronomical Event of the Twentieth Century, from Official Records. By Chas. P. Olivier. Join Our Community of Science Lovers!