Saturday, June 30, 2012

The Tunguska Event

June 30 in 1908, something exploded over in Tunguska which is now called Krasnoyarsk Krai, in Russia. It is now estimated to have been nearly 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. That explosion called the Tunguska Event has been the subject of intense curiosity and diverse theories and which up to this day make it  unique and mysterious.

It wasn't until in 1921, when a Russian mineralogist, Leonid Kulik became intrigue to travel to the area and interview some witnesses. He returned in 1927, then with people to take him to the impact site. What he saw shocked him.



So what could have caused the Tunguska explosion?

There are lots of  interesting theories - from exploding UFO's, Black Holes, Antimatter, natural H-bomb, Nikola Tesla, and we would find more of it if you keep searching the internet, but the generally agreed upon theory is that a large space rock entered the atmosphere of Siberia and then detonated in the sky.




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