Looking at the picture I'm surprised that this was not hypothesized sooner.
To: blam
To: Mike Darancette
To: Mike Darancette
4 posted on
06/22/2007 11:51:10 AM PDT by
El Sordo
To: Mike Darancette
5 posted on
06/22/2007 11:52:48 AM PDT by
Redcitizen
(Grond! Grond! Grond!)
To: Mike Darancette
It has, one of the science channels did a show on it, they hypothesized about that lake and took samples from it years ago. I think the majority consensus was a comet made up of smaller stones and ice that exploded, causing a huge bang but not a lot of large debris laying around.
6 posted on
06/22/2007 11:53:10 AM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Mike Darancette; SunkenCiv
7 posted on
06/22/2007 11:54:39 AM PDT by
BJClinton
(Jimmy Carter: the Renaissance Man of incompetence)
To: Mike Darancette
There was a Russian geologist who theorized something very close, believing that the remains of the asteroid or meteor broke up into several pieces, drove into the earth, and that permafrost etc melted enough to create swamps in an already swampy land. He was researching for several years, but volunteered when Germany invaded, and was captured and died in a prison camp.
Learned that on History channel, but i forget his name.
8 posted on
06/22/2007 11:57:20 AM PDT by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Mike Darancette
an artist's rendition of what may have caused the impact...
9 posted on
06/22/2007 12:00:03 PM PDT by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: Mike Darancette
I get a "cookie error" when I click on link. I'll try IE. Same absent cookie.
Oh well, I guess it has been there for almost 100 years. It'll still be there later.
10 posted on
06/22/2007 12:05:38 PM PDT by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: Mike Darancette
11 posted on
06/22/2007 12:07:17 PM PDT by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
To: Mike Darancette
First time I’ve hear this, and it may solve a long-time mystery. This should get more geological studies to the area funded.
16 posted on
06/22/2007 1:16:28 PM PDT by
KingLiberty
(As 12th Imam I declare 'Give me liberty or give me. . . twins would be nice.')
To: Mike Darancette
"You just have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!"
To: Mike Darancette
"Cheko, a small lake located 8 km from the alleged epicentre of the 1908 Tunguska Event, has an unusual funnel-like bottom morphology, with ~50 m maximum water-depth near the center and a 0.16 depth-to-diameter ratio.
...A prominent reflector observed in seismic reflection profiles ~10 m below the bottom at the center of the lake indicates a sharp density/velocity contrast, compatible with either the presence of a fragment of the body, or of material compacted by the impact. Drilling could solve this dilemma."
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