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Essay / The Tunguska explosion: an unexpected loud detonation and...
Like any other morning, Siberia was calm and peaceful where everyone was having fun, living their lives when something catastrophic happened affected the lives of many people. Tunguska, in Siberia, conceals many mysteries, but this one worries Russia greatly. To this day, they are trying to find key evidence of a tragic event that took place on the banks of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia. This event has struck many lives and not a single soul has found the cause or reason for what happened there. Although many remarkable stories have been told, no one has ever found the truth or exact evidence. Many Russian scientists can't even identify the signs that cause it, but they have remarkably many theories. Today, Tunguska still remains a notorious mystery as scientists continue to search the region for more interesting clues, if any, that could change Russians forever. On the morning of June 30, 1908, around 7:17 a.m., a catastrophic and mysterious event occurred on the banks of the Tunguska River, but that's about all we know about it. This event was an explosion; an explosion of which we still do not know how or what happened, who caused it and why. In the article “The Tunguska Explosion: An Unexpected Loud Detonation and Explosion” by Philip Coppens, the explosion was so significant in history that this event is known to be the greatest impact in history. More than 80 million trees fell over an area of 2,150 square kilometers. Additionally, in Coppens' article, several people in nearby villages had suffered fatal burns and later reported that two people had been killed. William K. Hartmann, who wrote the article "1908 Siberia Explosion: Reconstructing an Asteroid Impact from Eyewitness Accounts...... middle of paper ...... colliding meteorites with the earth often leave a crater or some type. fragments left behind. But this event only became more remarkable by the day. One thing that really amazed scientists during their research was the structure of trees. In fact, the fall of the forest left behind a butterfly pattern that was both meaningful and strangely strange. According to Ol'khovatov, forest falls disappear just a few kilometers west of the epicenter, and further west are the rare fallen trees. And as noted above, there have been attempts to spur the fall of the forest by a meteoroid explosion. However, the results were remarkable: They knew from a large observational data set that a meteoroid would disintegrate before colliding with Earth. For the trees to have a meaningful pattern, the meteoroid had to be a huge block of super-explosive material..