What was the biggest asteroid to ever hit Earth?
We started our research in the Yahoo! Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids category. We found quite a bit of interesting information about “near earth objects,” but failed to find the answer we wanted, so we headed back to the top page of Yahoo!. Hoping to find more detailed information on asteroids, we typed “biggest asteroid to hit the earth” in the Yahoo! search box. Terminal Reality, a student-built site hosted on Thinkquest, got us off to a good start. We discovered the following: The biggest asteroid to hit the Earth this century was in Siberia on June 30, 1908. The rock was about 100,000 tons and the size of a large house. It shattered in the air, while about four miles from the ground, creating an explosion 2,000 times strong
