SIBERIA METEORITE FLATTENS 40 SQ MILES

The Times ^ | 7 June 2003 | Robin Shepherd

[Publius6961]

North of Lake Baikal?
That's awfully close to the Tunguska 1908 event.

Is there a meteorite magnet in the area, or what?

[CygnusXI]

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My Birthday Asteroid. 9-29-04.
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[Mike Darancette]

Is there a meteorite magnet in the area, or what?

These events (maybe not to this scale) happen way more often than was earlier believed. There was a similar event over Northern Canada in 2000.

Most such events (70%) would happen over the oceans and Siberia and Northern Canada are a good chunk of real estate.

[RightWhale]

6.2 miles square. Not very big! Not sure how that relates to Nagasaki area and size.

It would take a megaton range nukebomb to flatten a township, and of course there are degrees of lesser damage farther out. Townships are 6 by 6 miles. This meteor was apparently 5000 times smaller than a megaton. Or one five-thousandth as big depending on your politics. Neither Nagasaki nor Hiroshima were totally destroyed by the nukebombs, although devastation was essentially complete inside a certain radius.

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another three year old topic:

[Steve Van Doorn]

The falling of the meteorite is still mysterious. Scientists say that it might weigh 60 tons Pravda news in 2003 reported it very different.

[BenLurkin]

Yes . . . that is odd if nobody has a picture of this.

[BenLurkin]

Eyewitnesses said that saw very interesting and unusual things. People said that lamps turned on in their houses for several seconds, although there was absolutely no electric power that night. This means that the Vitimsky meteorite can be categorized as an electrophone one. Its flight generated a very powerful, albeit alternating, electric field in the atmosphere."

(And who is Giselle Bundchen . . . .?")

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[jpsb]

"Take the land mass of the North Pole"

Did i miss something? Land has been discovered at the North Pole? Who da thunk it!

The numbers here just do not add up. 40 sq miles of destruction, 200 tons of TNT? Hmmm, the Hiroshima bomb was about 15,000 tons of TNT and detonated at an optimal altitude and did not cause 40 sq miles of total destruction. Maybe a few sq miles.

I wish reporters were smart enough to know what they are reporting on. The state of journalism is really sad, clueless people writing articles full of obvious mis statements of fact. Oh well, public schools I guess.

[jpsb]

"The size of the meteorite can be inferred from the size of the explosion"

Only with in a very large margin of error, if none of the impactor survived impact. Different kinds of impactors have different kinds of bangs.

[jpsb]

airbust, very little if any water displacement.

[Ditto]

What is it about Siberia that attracts these weird explosions? Is Siberia accursed?

No, it's just damn big.