What exactly was the Siberia fireball?

Answer 1

Nobody knows for sure what caused the Tunguska event. There are serious problems with every proposed explanation.

For instance, no fragments of a meteorite, comet, or other extraterrestrial object have ever been found, and yet the energies involved are greater than the nuclear bombs we dropped on Japan.

One obscure theory is that a very small black hole impacted the earth. Possibly, it went through the earth, emerging through the ocean bed. Another possibility is that it is currently in the earth's core, eating up magma as it impacts. Those who believe that it's in our core point to changes in the earth's magnetic fields and changing climate as evidence of the damage it is causing.

It sounds intriguing, but it'd have caused a tsunami if it emerged, wouldn't it? And if it is still inside, it's hard to explain the trajectory it would have been on. In fact, the angles the trees were lying at make it hard to explain *any* trajectory.

Answer 2

On June 30, 1908 something detonated in the sky over the Tunguska region of Siberia. Although there are a number of theories all the eyewitnesses claim that for several nights afterward the sky glowed at night. The only thing that would cause that would be ionization of the atmosphere which leads some to believe the Tunguska event could only have been a nuclear detonation. This was supported some years later when a scientific expedition found radioactive elements in the barks of trees facing toward the blast. Most of the details were buried by the Soviet government which took power in 1918.

Answer 3

Most people in the Near Earth Object community think that the Great Siberian Explosion in 1908 (the Tunguska Event) was caused by the disruption of a stony asteroid about 50 m across. The asteroid blew apart several kilometers up and created a butterfly-shaped blast pattern of felled trees covering an area of around 2500 square km.

Answer 4

The Tunguska event may have been a small icy comet or an asteroid that entered the atmosphere in 1908 and exploded in the skies overhead, flattening a large section of forest in Siberia.

Answer 5

scientific theory a meteor came down from space and exploded 500 feet above the ground.

my theory UFO was being chased by another and was shot out of the sky something i just made up in my head.

Answer 6

The tunguska event?

Answer 7

A spaceship from another planet was flying by and dumped its toilet waste there. Causing a huge explosion.

Answer 8

It was a meteor. This is well-established.