Mysterious explosion in Tunguska, Siberia.
Mysterious explosion in Tunguska, Siberia. |
At 7:17 pm on June 30, 1908 occurred in Siberia, Russia, the mysterious aerial explosion Tunguska Event. The energy released was equivalent to 185 Hiroshima bombs.
If the explosion had occurred in a populated area, it would have caused incalculable disaster. The effects reached populations that were up to 600km away from where the event occurred; houses vibrated and broke fragile objects, including Trans-Siberian railway had to stop their march to derail risk. Interestingly,
The Tunguska Event never reach the earth's surface; no crater or fragments were found. The nature of this object from space remained a mystery for many years. The first research expedition this phenomenon was recently sent to the area in the 1920s, during the government of Lenin. The most accepted theory is that it was a comet consists of ice and dust. After bursting,
Because of the friction with the atmosphere of the Earth, the ice would have passed directly to a gaseous state without a trace. On the other hand, some astronomers suggested that the Tunguska explosion was the result of "natural thermonuclear bomb", generated by a comet heavy hydrogen, but no evidence to be endorsed this theory is found.
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