[padre35]

Amazing how fortunate it is that the event happened in one of the few places on Earth that there was no large population nor even habitation for this even to take place.

Seems to me that the Italian Scientists are flailing a bit on this though.

[newguy357]

Amazing how fortunate it is that the event happened in one of the few places on Earth that there was no large population nor even habitation for this even to take place.

Statistically, it would be much more likely for something like this to happen over the ocean or an unpopulated part of the world than over an area with even a modest population. As many of us as there are, most of the world is still mostly empty....

[blam]

"Amazing how fortunate it is that the event happened in one of the few places on Earth that there was no large population nor even habitation for this even to take place."

Astronomers Clube & Napier say in their book, Cosmic Winter, that we can expect a Tunguska class event about every 100 years.

[Swordmaker]

My first thought was that I recalled seeing early pictures of still standing, de-branched trees directly under the supposed epicenter of the blast with more and more trees blasted down all pointing away from the blast. That was one of the pieces of evidence that proved it was not an impact event. The Italian theory would not be effected by this evidence.

However, I cannot see how a body entering the atmosphere at orbital or even sub-orbital velocities and then producing a violent megaton equivalent blast could possibly send a 10 meter portion of itself to strike the earth at a remarkably far slower velocity than the main mass.