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The Tunguska Event – The Meteor That Vanished

Chill Fuel | April 18, 2024
The Tunguska Event - The Meteor That Vanished

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  1. @gregvigil1815

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    Tall-El Hammam Meteorite Airburst in Jordan, north of the Dead Sea, several thousand years ago. SEE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea. (It's a peer review article written in a "Scientific Journal")
    There are videos about this also.

  2. @jarrensmith1060

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    I put my money on a comet that vaporized before impact allowing any residue to change states. Solid to vapor then was allowed to become a liquid that ultimately became a solid again blending in seamlessly with the already existing ice in the frozen wastelands ha

  3. @sergoogle5061

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    Almost seems like whatever came and evaporated was some kind of ice. This would explain the lack of an impact zone while still managing to affect a wider area. The lights in the sky could very well be ice particles that broke off due to the sun melting the outer layer which would then linger in the upper atmosphere and reflect sunlight after hours. Have no data whatsoever to back it up but just seems like the logical answer lol

  4. @taotzu1339

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    Likely a comet with frozen methane as the primary mass…hitting critical temperature and detonated before impact with the ground. This would explain why there was no crater.

  5. @gandalf_thegrey

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    I can just imagine this dude chilling on his isolated porch, eating his breakfast and enjoying the sight of the vast wilderness just for all of it to be interrupted by a huge ass explosion

  6. @DougVanDorn

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    In addition, the Tunguska impactor may actually have been smaller than the Chelyabinsk impactor, but on a slightly less horizontal or "grazing" trajectory. Had the Chelyabinsk impactor been angled towards the Earth's surface just a little bit more, it could have survived mostly intact down to an altitude of only three to four miles, instead of exploding at the 14-mile altitude that it did. That would have given the blast wave a lot less space to spread out and lose energy, and could have flattened Chelyabinsk rather than just blowing in hundreds of glass windows and pushing over some weakly reinforced walls. It's quite possible that the Tunguska impactor was a little smaller, but angled such that its airburst occurred only a few miles above the ground. The pattern of the trees being knocked over and broken like twigs is very indicative of a shock wave traveling proceeding along the impactor's trajectory from the spot of the airburst, just as we see the shockwave from the Chelyabinsk impactor continue on its trajectory (leaving a contrail) after the airburst occurred. That isn't just surviving pieces of the Chelyabinsk impactor that fly forward from its explosion, it's mostly the shock wave propagating along the trajectory at hypersonic speeds.

    Imagine that shock wave coming down at a steeper angle and striking the ground before it dissipated — that would level a forest, exactly as happened at Tunguska. As it was, all Chelyabinsk and the surrounding region suffered were the shock waves sent out radially from the explosion. The direct blast wave that followed the impactor's trajectory dissipated without slamming into the ground. Basically, in the case of Tunguska, that shock wave slammed into the forest, creating the craterless impact zone discovered years later.

  7. @DougVanDorn

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    Most space rocks unlucky enough to hit our planet explode violently as they enter Earth's atmosphere. They're just too small for the force of the explosions to be felt on the ground. This was a big-enough rock to explode in the multi-megaton range. Don't think this could happen? It happened again 9 years ago, also over Russia, near Chelyabinsk.

    Please stop trying to invoke ridiculous conspiracy theories and the "It must be aliens!" big lie. It doesn't help anyone, and it only gains you, as followers, idiots who cannot think. I know I would be very dissatisfied if the only people I could reach with my videos (if I made them) were idiots who lack the ability to think. ๐Ÿ™‚

  8. @PeeperSnail

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    I fully believe it was an asteroid (though a natural gas explosion is plausible, too). The first recorded expedition to the site of the event was helped out by local tribes, who's to say they hadn't already checked the area out and cleared out rubble?

  9. @deskslam4232

    April 18, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    I believe the event may have been caused not by a meteor or comet, but perhaps some other astronomical event. It could even have been a dispersal of energy from our own star, or even a star galaxies away. If there was no physical remnants left behind, it must have been an air burst or even a burst of ultraviolet radiation. Who knows, thoughโ€ฆ all we have is tribes with no real scientific knowledge, mostly pseudoscience and/or supernatural explanations.

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