Tech | July 02, 2008 | 4 comments

What caused the mysterious Tunguska explosion?

source: http://www.space.com/news/080630-mm-tunguska-mystery.html

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From the report: The explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River on June 30, 1908, flattened some 500,000 acres (2,000 square kilometers) of Siberian forest. Scientists calculated the Tunguska explosion could have been roughly as strong as 10 megatons to 20 megatons of TNT - 1,000 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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4 comments // What caused the mysterious Tunguska explosion?

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  • CampKohler
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      CampKohler  

    • Like most things, there is a simple explanation. A clever team of Soviet scientists, hard-put to test their new H-bomb without causing severe environmental effects, stuffed it in a time machine and sent it back to 1908. Later that day they went outside into the forest (the radiation having died down over the decades), examined the results of the blast, wrote up a report and submitted it to the party secretary.

      The reply: "YOU IDIOTS! YOU BLEW UP OUR TIME MACHINE???"

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
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    • It was caused by by a cometary impactor that exploded - as most such impactors do - in the atmosphere just above the Earth's surface.

    • 3 years ago
  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  

    • This is ancient news, why is it being re-issued! Unless there is some new and interesting data, what is the point in re-plowing a plowed field?

    • 3 years ago
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