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SIBERIA METEORITE FLATTENS 40 SQ MILES
The Times ^ | 7 June 2003 | Robin Shepherd

Posted on 06/09/2003 5:25:21 PM PDT by Mike Darancette

IF IT had hit Central London, Britain would no longer have a capital city. The force of the meteorite that hit eastern Siberia last September destroyed 40 square miles of forest and caused earth tremors felt 60 miles away.

An expedition from Russia's Kosmopoisk institute has only recently reached the site in a remote area north of Lake Baikal because of bad weather and difficult terrain, the Interfax news agency said yesterday.

Fragments of the meteorite had apparently exploded into shrapnel 18 miles above the Earth with the force of at least 200 tonnes of TNT.

At the time, Russian media reported that villagers 60 miles away had witnessed a gigantic fireball screeching down from the sky, causing windows to rattle and house lights to swing as they were hit by blast waves on September 25. There were no reported casualties.

Copyright 2003, The Times


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To: Mike Darancette
North of Lake Baikal?
That's awfully close to the Tunguska 1908 event.

Is there a meteorite magnet in the area, or what?

61 posted on 06/10/2003 8:41:09 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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My Birthday Asteroid. 9-29-04.
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62 posted on 06/10/2003 8:47:30 AM PDT by CygnusXI (n00b)
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To: Publius6961
Is there a meteorite magnet in the area, or what?

These events (maybe not to this scale) happen way more often than was earlier believed. There was a similar event over Northern Canada in 2000.

Most such events (70%) would happen over the oceans and Siberia and Northern Canada are a good chunk of real estate.

63 posted on 06/10/2003 8:52:06 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Soddom has left the bunker.)
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To: lawdude
6.2 miles square. Not very big! Not sure how that relates to Nagasaki area and size.

It would take a megaton range nukebomb to flatten a township, and of course there are degrees of lesser damage farther out. Townships are 6 by 6 miles. This meteor was apparently 5000 times smaller than a megaton. Or one five-thousandth as big depending on your politics. Neither Nagasaki nor Hiroshima were totally destroyed by the nukebombs, although devastation was essentially complete inside a certain radius.

64 posted on 06/10/2003 10:10:14 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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65 posted on 08/24/2004 11:28:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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66 posted on 03/24/2006 10:36:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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67 posted on 03/24/2006 10:46:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The falling of the meteorite is still mysterious. Scientists say that it might weigh 60 tons Pravda news in 2003 reported it very different.
68 posted on 03/24/2006 11:31:54 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: Husker24
Yes . . . that is odd if nobody has a picture of this.
69 posted on 03/25/2006 11:51:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
Eyewitnesses said that saw very interesting and unusual things. People said that lamps turned on in their houses for several seconds, although there was absolutely no electric power that night. This means that the Vitimsky meteorite can be categorized as an electrophone one. Its flight generated a very powerful, albeit alternating, electric field in the atmosphere."


(And who is Giselle Bundchen . . . .?")

70 posted on 03/25/2006 11:57:50 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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71 posted on 04/13/2008 12:52:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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72 posted on 07/03/2009 6:04:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: dogbyte12
"Take the land mass of the North Pole"

Did i miss something? Land has been discovered at the North Pole? Who da thunk it!

The numbers here just do not add up. 40 sq miles of destruction, 200 tons of TNT? Hmmm, the Hiroshima bomb was about 15,000 tons of TNT and detonated at an optimal altitude and did not cause 40 sq miles of total destruction. Maybe a few sq miles.

I wish reporters were smart enough to know what they are reporting on. The state of journalism is really sad, clueless people writing articles full of obvious mis statements of fact. Oh well, public schools I guess.

73 posted on 07/03/2009 6:45:36 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Sentis
"The size of the meteorite can be inferred from the size of the explosion"

Only with in a very large margin of error, if none of the impactor survived impact. Different kinds of impactors have different kinds of bangs.

74 posted on 07/03/2009 6:52:59 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: blam

airbust, very little if any water displacement.


75 posted on 07/03/2009 6:55:26 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: LibKill
What is it about Siberia that attracts these weird explosions? Is Siberia accursed?

No, it's just damn big.


76 posted on 07/03/2009 7:00:54 AM PDT by Ditto
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