Is it even possible? Yes, it is.
Posted on 05/28/2020 3:47:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
On the morning of 30 June 1908, a large explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia. That event is known as the Tunguska event that leveled trees across more than 2,000 square kilometers.
It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found. Due to the remoteness of the site and the limited instrumentation available at the time of the event, modern scientific interpretations of its cause and magnitude have relied chiefly on damage assessments, and geological studies conducted many years after the fact.
The most likely cause is an airburst asteroid strike in which the asteroid explodes in the atmosphere, similar to the Chelyabinsk meteor strike in 2013. Given the size of the impact region, it's estimated that the original asteroid was nearly 70 meters across. This would explain why no large impact crater has been found.
Fragments of Chelyabinsk were discovered soon after the impact. But, in the case of the Tunguska event, there were no fragments. This causes several assumptions on the cause of events such as a massive leak of natural gas, or even the explosion of an alien spacecraft.
A new study shedding light on the event again, suggests that there are no fragments because the asteroid didn't fragment after all. Instead, it glanced off Earth's atmosphere.
(Excerpt) Read more at techexplorist.com ...
Also there were dozens, maybe hundreds, of videos of the Chelyabisnk meteor to determine its exact path and likely impact point. Makes it a lot easier than trying to determine the center point of the air burst from burnt and fallen trees a decade after the devent.
I’m voting for a clathrate/hydrate explosion. They’re far more common than most people know.
LOL! Yeah, that was the nutty claim by David Hatcher Childress, in the same book that he claimed that Marconi built flying saucers and he and his followers colonized Mars. It is apparently untroubling to Childress that the tower never became operational and was abandoned by 1906.
*** “And no one stays long when they get there” ***
Mosquitoes surrounding you as numerous as Stars in the sky and that is just as far as your arms can reach... Each of which just wants to dip it’s beak
heh... and according to the wiki-wacky, Peary's final and successful North Pole expedition didn't depart until July of 1908.
I first read Tuskegee.
There was a very compelling film on TV some years back where the tree destruction pattern was reproduced by sliding an explosive charge down a wire above a simulated forest. When the right angle was found, the ‘butterfly’ pattern of felled trees was achieved including trees still standing directly under the point of explosion.
The original expedition was expecting to find a mass of and fortune in iron and nickel buried at tha impact site. Berringer working at Arizona's Meteor Crater expected the same thing. Eugene Shoemaker's paper on the disintegration of impactors and production of shocked quartz etc didn't come out until after he witnessed an atmospheric nuke test.
My pleasure.
Sounds interesting, I'd love to see it. The crashing UFO idea came from a book "The Fire Came By", it was a Soviet author, and while it's woo-woo way out there, there is some useful research, such as, newspaper accounts in British India from the day of the impact, making estimates of the descent trajectory more accurate.
Wait until one a mile in diameter hits!
Stealin' it.
(Buzzer Sound) Wrong.
They didn't have pipelines there, but the first Natural gas pipeline was in 1859 - almost a half century earlier. Coal gas goes back even earlier. Atlanta has a gas system that dates to 1856; London and Baltimore much earler.
Large bubbles of methane come up from the ocean floor all the time. It “could” happen.
FWIW
Eye witness at the time saw the object change course several times AIR
It was caused by a crashed alien spacecraft.
(I heard that from a famous remote viewer. It’s a far more exciting explanation than a space rock)
Greek name
Brian Williams covered it LIVE with his crystal radio just in time to get it on the 5PM news
He then began heroically to stand back up all those fallen trees in the vain hope that Paul Bunyan would arrive soon to lend a hand
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