Tunguska was a very unlucky asteroid \ comet \ thing... very bad timing, hahaha... WW1, Russian \ Soviet revolution, then WW2... also bad placement, middle of Siberia... poor thing... only one per millennium, and getting lost like that...
The sheer scale of this event is what gets me. A 10-30 megaton airburst is almost incomprehensible. It's fascinating that the lack of a crater was the biggest puzzle for so long, and that the solution: a total vaporization of the object in the atmosphere, is almost more frightening than a ground impact. It really drives home the importance of modern detection efforts.
Thanks! Yes, all the photos of the devastation were taken by him. There were later expeditions, but mostly after World War II, and by then things had recovered somewhat.
Tunguska was a very unlucky asteroid \ comet \ thing... very bad timing, hahaha... WW1, Russian \ Soviet revolution, then WW2... also bad placement, middle of Siberia... poor thing... only one per millennium, and getting lost like that...
The sheer scale of this event is what gets me. A 10-30 megaton airburst is almost incomprehensible. It's fascinating that the lack of a crater was the biggest puzzle for so long, and that the solution: a total vaporization of the object in the atmosphere, is almost more frightening than a ground impact. It really drives home the importance of modern detection efforts.
I love the way there is still so much uncertainty and mystery about things happening around us
Excellent post… and credit to Kulik for investing… I guess the photos showing the devastation were all taken during his expeditions?
And how refreshing to not have any mention of alien spaceships crash landing, etc…
Thanks! Yes, all the photos of the devastation were taken by him. There were later expeditions, but mostly after World War II, and by then things had recovered somewhat.