Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says (Tunguska)

National Geographic ^ | 11-7-2007 | Maria Cristina Valsecchi

[Swordmaker]

Good explanation. Did you read the Fox News article and look at some of their evidence? It certainly needs looking into. It's possible that the lake may be the remnant of an earlier event, as unlikely as that may seem.

One problem with the "slushy" comet theory... We've so far driven by three comets and bashed one with a 634 pound chunk of copper and none of them were found to be "slushy." They are, apparently, just like the rocky asteroids we've visited and driven by... no slush.

[Norman Bates]

Yes, thank you, I’m aware; I misspoke. And you misquoted me. We’re even then. ;^)

[Swordmaker]

OK. Just for that, I may stay in your motel the next time in the area.

[bIlluminati]

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.

Um, retrorockets? And notice they report the main body threw off a smaller body. Escape pod? Xists 90 years too early?

[patton]

Fascinating stuff.

[jalisco555]

Or until somebody drinks him to avoid rickets...

Scurvy, not rickets.

[burzum]

The basin of Lake Cheko is not circular, deep, and steep like a typical impact crater, the scientists say.

Instead it's elongated and shallow, about 1,640 feet (500 meters) long with a maximum depth of only 165 feet (50 meters).

When meteors strike at highly supersonic speeds they always leave circular craters. This is why the Moon has only circular craters even though most impacts must have been at some angle not perpendicular to the surface at the time of impact. That this impact crater is elliptical is very interesting.

[Thermalseeker]

As many of us as there are, most of the world is still mostly empty....

A point that is lost on most folks, especially the anthropogenic global warming believers and the folks who claim we're running out of oil.....

[aruanan]

It was a really interesting book. That’s why From Exodus to Arthur seemed so interesting to me.

[org.whodat]

NO doubt!

[org.whodat]

Thanks for the post, I knew that, just thought they could look it up for themselves. Have read many different accounts of the event and watched different films of area from discovery, etc. The only thing that could really explain the event is a freak air burst, in my little opinion.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

I had always read that the flash you referenced in your post that is speculated to be a possible Israeli nuke test was captured by satellite imagery over the South Indian Ocean, due south of SA?

[Crawdad]

So they finally looked between Madona’s legs?

[SuziQ]

Big Badda-Boom Ping!

[LIConFem]

Too clever by half. The current airburst theory (correct or not) is more likely.

[blam]

From Dr Clube's article:

"''In short, it became fashionable to assume that the world is safe when in fact multiple Tunguska bombardments, releasing around five-thousand megatons, the equivalent of a full-scale nuclear war, may happen at intervals of about 1,500 years, producing a Dark Age,'' he says.''To suggest the planet is safe is absurd.''

[ReagansRaiders]

You’re both wrong. It was the pod that brought Dennis Kucinich to Earth.

[COBOL2Java]

Perhaps an incoming cankle from the planet Canklemos’. And check Hillary’s DNA - she may not be human!

Dr. Raymond Stantz to Hillary:

"You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1908!"

[SunkenCiv]

Testimony of Russell Schweickart, Hearing on Near-Earth Objects
SpaceRef | Thursday, November 8, 2007 | Russell L. Schweickart
Posted on 11/13/2007 12:52:30 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1925143/posts

[Swordmaker]

Scurvy, not rickets.

Damn... I went from a C to a D... rats... senior moment, I guess...