Its called the Tunguska blast?

Question

Do you know about the meteor that hit an area in Tunguska Russia in 1909, that destroyed all the vegetation in the area? I never heard about it until recently. You can e-mail me at [e-mail] to hear more.

Answer 1

Yes, I first recall reading about that my second or third year in college...and that almost 30 years ago!

I have read several articles on the blast that offer many theories but no definite explanation. Every thing for a meteor impact, a spaceship (UFO) that detonated with the force of a nuclear weapon on impact to various scientific possibilities.

I find it fascinating that the Russian (under the Czar at the time?....can't recall) sent a scientific exhibition to the remote area years later as the blast seen and felt for over 1000 miles away. Imagine what their scientists might have discovered at the site and perhaps has never been shared outside the Kremlin!

OK, enough UFO and ET for now. I'll have to e-mail you to hear more.

Answer 2

Yes, I heard of it years ago. It was not anti-matter or anything else so exotic. When a meteor or comet enters the atmosphere, it produces a shock wave in front of it. When the pressure density of this shock wave reaches the compression force necessary to crush the object, that object explodes. This happened above the ground, turning the meteor into dust and dispersing the kinetic energy in an air blast. These objects are entering the atmosphere at something like 17,000 miles an hour. A large mass moving at that speed has the kinetic energy of an atomic blast. The Tunguska blast is well researched. They even know which group of objects that cross the earth's orbit that this object came from.

Answer 3

At one time, the theory was that the Tunguska blast was caused by a few atoms of anti-matter. The blast pattern was thought to be a-typical for a meteor (massive lateral/horizontal blast) & might be more consistant with a small amount of anti-matter entering our atmosphere.

Answer 4

Some reports have said that it showed all the signs of being what we now call a nuclear explosion, including radioactivity at the crater. There are also some reports that it changed course somewhere over northern India or near there. These have led some people to conclude that it was a starship of some kind but nobody knows for sure and the blast destroyed nearly all of the evidence.

Answer 5

they never found meteoric material and think it all was blown up in the air blast. The photos of the area look like an atomic bomb air blast so lots and lots of force and it was heard from a long distance away. Google for the rest that is all I know about it. ET rumors are just rumors