1908, June 30.Central Siberia, the river Stony Tunguska.Eyewitnesses have seen the flight of bright car, as well as its subsequent blinding explosion is so strong that the air wave circled the planet twice.Tunguska meteorite caused a strong earthquake that was recorded by European seismographs.A few nights after this incident, the Siberian region has been light, as if the day ends.Atmospheric anomalies observed on the shores of the Atlantic and up the Yenisei.Then people had no idea what had happened.It took more than a century, and there is now not a single person who knew exactly what happened that day.
Tunguska meteorite until now tried to find many, but they could not find in their path, even fragments of the car.The first representative became Vyacheslav Shishkov, three years after the incident, he gathered a geodesic expedition, but nothing but forest fall could not detect.Bol seriously the matter came Leonid Kulik in 1927.At first he was just scouting the territory, and then came back a year later with a serious expedition and equipment.Then, in 1939, he again took up the search, but they have been unsuccessful.Kulik was going to visit the area under consideration in 1941, but the war is not allowed to carry out his plans.Certain factors led him to hypothesize about the iron composition of the car.
Because the secret was still not solved, it always attracts attention of scientists.The next forwarder became Cyril Florensky, a geochemist, he tried his luck in 1958.As expected, the Tunguska meteorite was not found.However, during the research it has been found that the growth of trees occurs an abnormally fast rate.This indicated that the car does not explode from the collision with the planet, and over its surface.This conclusion is at odds with the views of the fall of meteorites, which was the approach to a solution, however, it is all the more confusing.
Around the same time in Tomsk organized by the Integrated amateur expedition (CSE), but her plans were not so much a search for the wreckage itself as involving the public.A year later, in 1960, she again went to find and set a record - it is composed of more than seventy people.About thirty years CSE stormed the area, she has collected a lot of data, which invariably brings them closer to a solution.About two thousand people participated in the expedition of all time of its existence.However, to answer the question about what is the Tunguska meteorite, the diameter of the fallen body, its composition, CSE and could not.
single opinion about what happened on the river Stony Tunguska does not exist.All available materials are so insignificant that they will further confuse the scientists and researchers.Initially, the Tunguska meteorite was a normal body arrived from outer space.After the war, some have expressed a theory that it was a comet.By the way, this hypothesis has the largest number of supporters.In 1977 he was investigated peat, which lies near the fall of the car.It was found that it contained a certain amount of chemical elements approximately identical in composition to the cores of comets.This was the wide dissemination of the comet theory.
Since there is no evidence that a Tunguska meteorite, the size of the car is unknown.One thing is clear - he was not an ordinary asteroid, did not leave behind fragments and still have not allowed scientists to unravel its mystery.
