The surprising event took place in the summer 1908 in Siberia. The taiga lit up with bright flash, there was an explosion of improbable force. Later on the planet the sensational news that there was a falling of the Tungus meteorite will scatter.
Scientists and researchers compare explosion force as a result of falling of a meteorite to power of explosion of several atomic bombs, dropped on Hiroshima. Many inhabitants of vicinities and neighboring areas at that time told about the blinding flash and the powerful shock wave which felled the wood around 1000 square kilometers. Old residents described a strong earthquake. Over the northern hemisphere of the planet within several nights in the sky the multi-colored shine was recorded.
The Tungus meteorite - the interesting facts, hypotheses, secrets and versions
- Powerful explosion strongly affected magnetic field of Earth. It is necessary to notice that search of the fallen meteorite continued within the next hundred years. The fact is that locally where there was a collision of a space body with Earth, very impassable and absolutely deserted.
- Scientific expeditions moved off in searches of the Tungus meteorite. Researchers of the first forwarding campaigns vainly tried to find a huge crater which has to be to remain from collision. But all search was vain. There were no traces even or fragments of a celestial body.
- Scientists made the assumption that the meteorite just scattered on small parts at the time of an entrance to the terrestrial atmosphere.
- Participants of the subsequent expeditions managed to find out where the center of falling of a meteorite was located. All trees were fallen in a radius. It is interesting that in the center many trees remained to stand, though lost branches.
- In several years it was succeeded to find one more interesting fact – the fallen wood had the butterflies form. Trees lay, directed towards the West.
- In general, the damage to a natural ecosystem was 2200 sq.km of the fallen wood. With the advent of more advanced technologies the scientists could simulate falling of the Tungus meteorite, they also managed to define that powerful explosion arose not at collision with Earth, and over its surface (about 5-10 m).
- What only did not connect the mystery of the Tungus meteorite with. Some claimed that it was nuclear explosion, so, it is a trace of human activity. Others assured that the alien civilizations which very close approached Earth could make this explosion. The third remembered Nicol Tesla's experiments. Even it is difficult to determine the size of the Tungus meteorite.
There is a set of the hypotheses connected with the Tungus meteorite. To this day, scientists show keen interest in this place. It is necessary to hope that they will manage to approach a solution of one of the secrets connected with space.