A RUSSIAN scientific expedition is claiming that a gigantic meteor, large enough to flatten a small city, exploded over Siberia last year. But the report has been met with extreme scepticism.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, a team of volunteers has found an impact area covering about 100 square kilometres of remote Siberian woodland. That would make it the second largest meteor strike in the past century, after the famous Tunguska impact of 1908. “I would love them to be right, because useful scientific data would come from this,” says Duncan Steel from the University of Salford in…
