The Chelyabinsk meteor is thought to be the biggest natural space object to enter Earth 's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event , and the only one confirmed to have resulted in a large number of injuries , although a small number of panic-related injuries occurred during the Great Madrid Meteor Event of 10 February 1896 .
The Chelyabinsk meteor is the largest object known to have entered the Earth 's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event , and the only such event known to have resulted in a large number of injuries .