Key facts
- Category
- Meteoritic material
- Object class
- Stony meteoroid
- Scale fact
- ~55 mpre-entry diameter
Tunguska Meteoroid
~55 mpre-entry diameter
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Details
The Tunguska meteoroid was the object that exploded over Siberia in 1908. The airburst flattened about 80 million trees across more than 2,000 square kilometers but left no impact crater, demonstrating how destructive an atmospheric breakup can be.
Unlike the instrument-rich Chelyabinsk event a century later, Tunguska must be reconstructed from eyewitness accounts and the pattern of forest damage. Current evidence favors an asteroid airburst, although the object left no recoverable main mass. Its effects remain a benchmark for estimating the regional hazard from bodies tens of meters across.
Links
- Wikipedia
- Tunguska Meteoroid on Wikipedia
Size neighbors
Objects near Tunguska Meteoroid on the scale
On the logarithmic size axis, Tunguska Meteoroid falls between Chelyabinsk Meteoroid and Dimorphos. The band uses nearby Meteoritic material records.
Shared physical scale
42.1m
Sources
References for Tunguska Meteoroid
Measurements and descriptive context are compiled by the Scale of Space team from the references below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- Tunguska Meteoroid — Wikipedia
- Visual: scaleofspace.org / CC BY-NC 4.0
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