The Tunguska event occurred near the Tunguska River in Siberia
Posted on 05/21/2012 9:32:37 PM PDT by null and void
At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion like a hydrogen bomb erupted in Siberia - and until now, scientists have offered no conclusive explanation for the event.
The Tunguska event occurred near the Tunguska River in Siberia
Italian scientists claim to have found chunks of a meteorite in nearby Lake Cheko
Seismic reflection and magnetic data revealed an anomaly close to the lake center, about 30ft below the lake floor compatible with the presence of a buried stony object and supports the impact crater origin for Lake Cheko.'
'The sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest,' a member of the local Evenki tribe remembered at the time
'The split in the sky grew larger, and the entire northern side was covered with fire.
'At that moment I became so hot I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire. I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, and then the sky slammed shut. A strong thump sounded and I was thrown a few yards.'
The explosion sent an atmospheric shockwave twice around the world and turned night into day across Europe.
Britain was lit for several days by a beautiful white and yellow sky, bright enough for midnight games of cricket and golf across the country.
This phenomenon is now thought to have been due to sunlight scattered by dust from the fireball's plume.
In a letter to a newspaper, one reader wrote: 'I myself was aroused from sleep at 1.15am, and so strong was the light at this hour, that I could read a book by it quite comfortably.
At 1.45am, the whole sky was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their morning song.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hmm... I wonder if the alien Pod attracts these large swarms of Mosquitos? Seriously, I really have been interested in this site for a long time, and I hope they learn much more about it, and can get samples if it is a meteorite.
“Have scientists finally found the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?”
“Which” should be “that”.
I bet what they found will be incredibly dense, perhaps a small fragment of dark matter. A piece the size of a baseball would weigh a ton. Or more.
This phenomenon is now thought to have been due to sunlight scattered by dust from the fireball's plume.
In a letter to a newspaper, one reader wrote: 'I myself was aroused from sleep at 1.15am, and so strong was the light at this hour, that I could read a book by it quite comfortably.
At 1.45am, the whole sky was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their morning song.'
It must have been an amazing sight.....far enough away from the impact zone, of course.
Admiral Peary still never got the message.
Even more amazing close up...
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I thought it was a comet which exploded in the air?
The Soviet scientitsts “proved” as much.
Whatever the impactor, if this rock chunk turns out to be part of it, the mid-air explosion idea will probably win out. The Barringer Crater/Meteor Crater in Arizona is 3/4 a mile across while the impactor was a hunk of stone about 75 feet across. On impact, the impactor (as well as about the same mass of the surface of the Earth) basically vaporized, with some of it condensing in the vicinity.
I thought this”meteor” changed course on the way in.
Heh, yeah, in the book “The Fire Came By”, which purports to show that the Tunguska object was actually an extraterrestrial craft attempting to land for repairs in the most remote, unpopulated area the aliens could find, it is claimed (based on a vintage newspaper article from British India) that the bolide must have changed directions. That argument doesn’t hold up though, as much as I’d love some evidence of ET landings. :’)
I believe you are correct. Documentarian John Carpenter proved it in “The Thing”, based partly on a true story.
Mulder, did you hear what they found at Tunguska?
Not to start a 9/11 conspiracy thread but I was listening on the radio the other day and some guy was going off about the plane that hit the Pentagon and how the gubmints story didn’t add up but they plane was size “x” and the sum of the parts found didn’t equal the whole.
The physics I have seen on that collision say basically the same thing about this meteor, that object “x” accelerating until it collides with immovable object and then basically disenigrates on impact.
bttt
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