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Tunguska Mystery Blast Solved?

Posted by michael on from the fire-in-the-sky dept.

mfarah writes: "This BBC article informs that an Italian scientist team has determined that the 1908 blast in Tunguska was in fact caused by a low density asteroid - that's why no crater was ever found. The article mentions that had the asteroid fallen into a populated area, instead of remote Siberia, hundreds of thousands of casualties would have been the result. Fortunately this news comes well after the "meteorite blast" fad has faded from Hollywood..."

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  1. Turks, yes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. This is old! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. the obvious comment by nodeboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowulf of those things!

  4. Sooner than you think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. It happened to me once by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:And for many years ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spot on! Mod parent up!

  7. Correct me if im wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But isnt this the place that was
    supposedly destroyed by nicola tesla testing
    his energy transfer device that was thought to have missed the intended target?

  8. A Question For the True Obscurists by On+Lawn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I remember seeing a movie on television about this. It is was the saturday afternoon variety back when you only had a handful of stations to choose from. It stared the bad guy from "Man from Atlantis" (cooked balooga, 43.8C,etc...)

    He was in space in the future, working on an Apple ][ (not even e) looking at the possible reasons for the explosion. His witty Apple ][ played a good supporting role to his brandishing insults, ran simulations and gave data on mini-black holes, UFO's, Anti-Matter, and Asteroids.

    Anyone else remember that movie?