The Tunguska Event: When The Sky Exploded
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Throughout recorded history, hundreds of Earth impacts (and exploding bolides) have been reported, with some occurrences causing deat-s, injuries, property damage, or other significant localised consequences. One of the best-known recorded events in modern times was the Tunguska event, which occurred in Siberia, Russia, in 1908. It is the largest impact on the Earth recorded in the recent history, though many other impacts have occurred in the prehistoric times.
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On 30th of June 1908, in a woodland area surrounding the Tunguska river, close to modern day Krasnoyarsk known as Tunguska, One of the most desolate areas of the most desolate region of the Russian Empire, an enormous explosion occurred. In a few minutes the sky opened in two, torn asunder by fire and a sound of thunder. It was a very mysterious event that took about 105 years of research to complete. We usually attribute the explosion to the air burst of a meteoroid. At about 170 km [110 mi] from the impact, just before the explosion, an object was spotted in the clear, daytime sky: as a brilliant, sun-like fireball travelling at enormous speed, leaving a trail of thunderous noises. 60 km [40 mi] from ground zero, at the time of the explosion: people were thrown to the ground by the shock waves, or even knocked unconscious. Trees were set ablaze and had fallen to the ground, their tops pointing radially away from ground zero, like giant arrows. Windows shattered in a hail of shards, while furniture, crockery and other objects fell to the ground. The blast nearly flattened 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles. So what happened that day which would become one of the most mysterious and important event in history.
Over the course of years there had been many explanations for this event. Some were wild, such as the encounter of Earth with a stricken alien spacecraft, or a mini-black-hole, or a particle of antimatter. But the actual truth was rather more subtle. Today the scientist attributes the cause of the explosion to be an air burst of an icy meteorite about 100 metres in size. Days later, strange phenomena were observed in the sky of Russia and Europe, like glowing clouds, colourful sunsets, and a weak luminescence in the night. Unfortunately, the inaccessibility of the region and Russia’s unstable political situation at the time prevented any further scientific investigation. The Tunguska region of Siberia may be a remote place, with a dramatic climate. it’s an extended hostile winter and a really brief summer, when the bottom changes into a muddy uninhabitable swamp. This makes the world hard to urge to. The region is additionally sparsely inhabited. Then when the explosion happened nobody volunteered to the location to find out what happened there. It would take 19 years before mineralogist Leonard Kulik organised an expedition to investigate what may have happened. LATER IN 1921, Kulik, who was a former soldier and now a professor of mineralogy, was charged with locating and examining meteorites that caused the explosion. He gathered all the information and read the old newspapers which had articles on the explosion. In the initial stages, he only figured out the location of the impact area rather than visiting the area. He read about the story of a family who had knocked down y the force of the blast. The wife reported, “the forest was blazing around them with many fallen trees”. Some children described,” A terrible storm, so great it was difficult to stand”. On his second expedition in 1927, Kulik reached the town of Vanavara located on the Tunguska river.
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