APOD 2.4

Yikes. Something bigger and more powerful than the A-bomb on Hiroshima? And not dropped by the United States? No, actually dropped by space. Where? Russia. When? June 30, 1908. What? A meteor. Why? Umm gravity? Actually yes, gravity. The meteor leveled trees, created a lake, and at 60 to over 1000 meters in diameter was large enough to level a metropolitan city. Is something like this, but more ginormous, what killed the dinosaurs? Maybe, but whatever it was it would have sucked to be a dinosaur. Or a tree in Siberia.