Spectrum | 02.07.2008 | 00:30
The Tunguska Meteorite Explosion
On 30th June, 1908, a massive explosion occurred in the air over the river Tunguska in Siberia, flattening 60,000 trees and killing wildlife over 2150 square kilometres.
The blast cracked windows and doors, and the people thought they were going through some sort of apocalypse. Estimates of the size of the blast range from 5 megatons to as high as 30 megatons of TNT - which is about 1000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. For many years the so-called 'Tunguska event' was a mystery. Was it caused by a UFO? or an asteroid or a comet?
Cinnamon Nippard and Nils Michaelis find out.
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