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To: Grammar Nazi
If the area was accessible after the impact they would have samples. They waited too long and the swamp ate the evidence. Maybe it was

6 posted on 06/29/2008 5:46:30 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost
If the area was accessible after the impact they would have samples. They waited too long and the swamp ate the evidence.

The area is very hard to access, but the first expedition got there by 1927 (the link about how they got there is quite interesting.) They found *nothing* except traces of an airburst. Since then many expeditions from all over the world traveled there, now expecting to find microscopic particles of the impactor, and not a solid meteorite as the earlier scientists believed. Besides, after 1945 people learned what a multi-kiloton explosion can do, and how it looks like on the ground. (Tunguska event is estimated at 10 to 15 megaton.)

For more, Wikipedia seems to have plenty of material.

12 posted on 06/29/2008 7:09:06 PM PDT by Greysard
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