article_snippet: Most notably, in February 2013, hundreds of people were injured when a meteor exploded near the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia - the largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century .
article_snippet: Most notably, in February 2013 hundreds of people were injured when a meteor exploded near the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, the largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century.
article_snippet: And in 1908, a comet exploded over the upper atmosphere in the sparse region of Tunguska, Siberia, devastating an area about the size of a major metropolitan region – 800 square miles (2,000 square km).