Don't simply refer me sites like Wikipedia... I've read nearly everything online about the incident.
I would rather hear what you have to say about it. Do you buy into the asteroid or comet theory? Do you believe one of the other theries? Do you have your own theory?
2006-10-23 05:24:14 · 8 answers · asked by BOO! 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
there is good evidence it was a meteor.
most of it was vaporised before hitting the ground, which is why it was easy for some people to make up weird stories about it. Black hole, spaceship, you name it.
a meteorite can explain everything that happened, and is by far more likely than any of the other scenarios.
2006-10-23 05:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think it was an asteroid or comet. Very few things can release that much energy in that way. Perhaps an H-bomb could do it, but they didn't exist back then, and I think the site would have measurable radioactivity.
BTW, it's not easy to see all the asteroids that might hit the earth. They are relatively small and fast moving, and they are dark against the black background of space. Even with today's technology, we might not have much warning of an impending collision. Fortunately, we're relatively safe for now, since such events happen typically only once a century at most and 70% of the earth's surface is covered in ocean. If we can get through this century, then by 2100 we'll have the technology to divert almost any potential impact.
2006-10-23 05:36:04 · answer #2 · answered by _ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strongest evidence is for a an asteroid or comet exploding in the air before impacting.
People have studied the destruction pattern and have worked out details on the height and descent angle of the object.
2006-10-23 06:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Answer guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What else could it have been? Did they even have a big enough bomb in 1908 to create that large of an explosion? I've never heard any alternate hypotheses about what might have happened in Tunguska.
2006-10-23 05:41:54 · answer #4 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think everyone in that part of russia got together and all farted at the same time to see what would happen. The amount of methane released was inavertantly ignited by a vodka drinking drunk who was lighting up a cigarette.
2006-10-23 07:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by ChiSox2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the evidence pretty conclusively shows that it was an exploding meteor.
2006-10-23 05:41:07 · answer #6 · answered by Carbon-based 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha its as if these other people were told how to answers this question
an asteroid? thats ridiculous, if it would have been an asteroid it would have been anounced months in advanced of impact.
I think it was a russian experiment that went wrong
2006-10-23 06:25:19 · answer #7 · answered by Jose2012 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It was a meteor. We have pieces of it lying around.
2006-10-23 05:29:50 · answer #8 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋