Mystery deepens over world’s biggest explosion 110 years ago in Russia. The Tunguska Mystery…

Mystery deepens over world’s biggest explosion 110 years ago in Russia.

The world’s biggest explosion — a blast in Russia the size of 185 Hiroshima bombs that was felt as far away as Britain and the US — remains a mystery after experts debunked ‘proof’ it was a meteorite.

A large fireball was seen crossing the Siberian sky on June 20, 1908 before an eruption six miles above ground flattened 80 million trees and left charred reindeer carcasses

The world’s biggest explosion — a blast in Russia the size of 185 Hiroshima bombs that was felt as far away as Britain and the US — remains a mystery after experts debunked ‘proof’ it was a meteorite.

Italian scientists spent 21 years researching the so-called Tunguska event, claiming the blue-water Lake Cheko filled a ‘missing’ impact crater — giving rise to the theory that the phenomenon was caused by a meteorite.

But a new study by Russian geologists suggests the idea is flawed, meaning the huge blast — which lit up the night sky in Europe and even America — is still a mystery, according to reports in Moscow.

In a review published in 2016 in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Natalia Artemieva of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona explains that the event followed a clear course.

Whatever caused the event likely entered the atmosphere at 9–19 miles per second, and would have…