Mystery deepens over world’s biggest explosion 110 years ago in Russia. The Tunguska Mystery…
Mystery deepens over world’s biggest explosion 110 years ago in Russia.
The world’s biggest explosion — a blast in Russia the size of 185 Hiroshima bombs that was felt as far away as Britain and the US — remains a mystery after experts debunked ‘proof’ it was a meteorite.
The world’s biggest explosion — a blast in Russia the size of 185 Hiroshima bombs that was felt as far away as Britain and the US — remains a mystery after experts debunked ‘proof’ it was a meteorite.
Italian scientists spent 21 years researching the so-called Tunguska event, claiming the blue-water Lake Cheko filled a ‘missing’ impact crater — giving rise to the theory that the phenomenon was caused by a meteorite.
But a new study by Russian geologists suggests the idea is flawed, meaning the huge blast — which lit up the night sky in Europe and even America — is still a mystery, according to reports in Moscow.
In a review published in 2016 in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Natalia Artemieva of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona explains that the event followed a clear course.
Whatever caused the event likely entered the atmosphere at 9–19 miles per second, and would have…