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POPSNew Theory ON Tunguska Explosion in Russia Comet or Meteor, but not a meteorite! Ok, at least they aren't hinting at a nuclear weapon this time....Comet's traditionally are known to be a "Big Ball of Ice and Rocks"...easier to be vaporized and leave little residue, I reckon! Was there any evidence of Iridium from this particular extraplanetary deposit in 1908??
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POPSEureka!!! 1908 Tunguska Event Caused by Comet ( photos & video ) An Explosion 1000 times greater than Hiroshima, to find out the amazing story of how the mystery was solved, go to http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/24/1908-tunguska-event-caused-by-comet-new-research-says/ "As the sun rose on the 30th June 1908 in Central Siberia, it was drowned out by a bright light streaking across the sky. Moments later, the atmosphere was reeling from an almighty explosion that, according to eye witness reports, sounded a lot like persistent artillery fire. However, the Earth was not under attack from UFOs, as one popular theory insisted, neither had a black hole just passed through the Earth or antimatter been annihilated as equally popular hypotheses suggested, but instead the natives of the remote Tunguska region had just experienced the most powerful impact event in recent history." The Earth had been hit by a Comet.
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POPSAliens Save the Planet From Meteor "We don't have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals... We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space."
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POPSTunguska was UFO & Meterorite? I knew Tunguska was more than they let it on to be :-) If you want to read an excellent thriller on Tunguska see a friend of mine's book http://singularitythebook.com/thebooks/singularity/ Bill's spin on the event is more interesting.....
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POPSSpace Rock makes close approach The object was first reported on Saturday by the Siding Spring Survey, a near-Earth object search programme in Australia. It was confirmed by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre (MPC), which catalogues Solar System objects.
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POPStung2 Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event Credit: Leonid Kulik Expedition, Wikipedia
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POPSTunguska: 100 years of wondering 30th Jun was the hundredth anniversary of the Tunguska explosion. They think the answer might lie at the bottom of Lake Chelo. The rule of thumb is that a 100 metre asteroid equals a 100 mTon hydrogen bomb.
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POPSAsteroid Impacts On Earth: A Protection Plan Indeed, over billions of years, the Tree of Life here on Earth has been whacked time and time again by what Schweickart labeled as “the crazy cosmic gardener.” “The good news is that we can do something about this,” the former astronaut explained. “The marriage of we human beings and the machines that we’ve created are now at a level of capability which enables us to fire the crazy cosmic gardener. We can stop this process from occurring again.”
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POPSAsteroid Fly-By Coming in January Lil' Dizzy registered a star (in the Andromeda constellation) in her name, for Christmas, so we've spent a bit of time looking heaven-ward. This gem from Signs of the Times makes note that at the end of the month of January, a large asteroid will be traveling very close by the "third rock from the Sun."
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POPSAsteroid may hit Mars January 2008 It's like Mars is a crash test dummy. June 30 is the Centenary of the Tunguska Impact on Earth. It has been called a meteor strike, but the jury is still out on exactly what it was. It was a weird meteor.They only discovered this asteroid in November It'd due on Jan 30 but I don't know where it will be night if it hits.The odds are 75:1, but they are short odds in astronomical terms. At least we wont be in suspense for too long. I was wondering how big a telescope would have to be before it can be seen, but it will probably be easier to see on youtube
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POPSthe Tunguska event On June 30, 1908, a ball of fire exploded about 6 miles (10 kilometers) above the ground in the sparsely populated region, scientists say. The blast released 15 megatons of energy—about a thousand times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima—and flattened 770 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) of forest. 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).
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