probably only deaf have not heard the name of the meteorite that fell in Siberia in the USSR.This unique event happened over a hundred years ago, the thirtieth of June 1908.On that day, at about seven in the morning local people saw in the sky is something inexplicable.However, all materials relating to this incident have been kept secret.Perhaps that is why the people spread sometimes the most incredible stories about him that are not substantiated by the facts.
name meteorite that fell in Siberia in the Soviet Union, scientists have come up with on the basis of the place of his landing.Cosmic body fell in Eastern Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River.Today it is the Evenki district in Krasnoyarsk region.Therefore, the meteorite now known as the Tunguska science.
as described by witnesses of the incident, first appeared in the sky a dazzling ball-car, which was moving to the northwest to the southeast.His flight was accompanied by a sound that resembled thunder during a thunderstorm.Large meteorite was visible within a radius of eight kilometers, and he left behind a trail of dust, which lasted for several hours.
Light phenomena ended in a heavy-duty explosion at about seven to ten kilometers.His energy was the explosion of two thousand nuclear bombs similar to those dropped on Hiroshima.TNT is from ten to forty megatons.Fortunately, this area is almost deserted.It is located only Vanavara village, and during the fall hunting in the forest a few nomadic Evenki.
Like all the meteorites that fell to the ground, the Tunguska felled trees in the forest around a radius of forty kilometers and affected people and animals.Coming off light a fire broke out, which covered an area of two thousand square kilometers.
name meteorite that fell in Siberia in the Soviet Union, today, is associated with the global catastrophe.After the blast the air wave circled the globe.In Siberian villages shaking soil and buildings, glass in the windows was cracked, flew off the shelves objects, people fell to the ground.In all parts of the Northern Hemisphere a few days there was an unusual atmospheric and optical phenomena, visible day and night.
first researcher Leonid Kulik Tunguska catastrophe in 1927 suggested that it was a large iron meteorite.However, he did not find a single fragment of the cosmic body.This enabled other scientists to hypothesize that fell in Siberia icy comet, alien spaceship, a giant fireball.Also expressed other opinions, saying that it was a failed experiment physicist Nikola Tesla, a black hole, the laser signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and so on.
USSR Academy of Sciences studied the incident thoroughly, offer expeditions, conducted an aerial survey the crash site.For professional scientists often joined amateur enthusiasts.However, until now not officially identified the body fragments that fell near the Stony Tunguska.
name meteorite that fell in Siberia in the Soviet Union, today, is a phenomenon that is not completely understood.In 1995, at the epicenter of the explosion of a century ago was established nature reserve of the Russian Federation, protected by the state.
