[kj] ASTEROOIDD!
bongo
humanhybrid666 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 20:00:24 EDT 2008
that NZ author... um... thingy... he went into it in detail in one of
his books... 'Harmonic 33' faaaarkin cool idea's, doubt its correct
tho...
=)
(no time to go into detail... 5 min left online at cafe!)
On 6/30/08, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:
> Yeah well known amongst conspiracy theorists, various whacky theories like
> UFOs, secret weapons of the soviets being tested etc, in reality it's far
> more consistent with a rocky / icy body exploding in the air and sending a
> shockwave down.
>
> I'm not too sure about the reporting in that Yahoo article, the Wiki article
> does mention some mineral deposits in the area consistent with a meteorite:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
>
>
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> Subject: [kj] ASTEROOIDD!
>
> [Weird. I'd never heard of this. - Oliver]
>
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080629/sc_afp/sciencespaceimpacttunguska
>
>
> 100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia
>
> by Richard Ingham/
> Sun Jun 29, 3:20 AM ET/
>
> A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn
> sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a
> scientific riddle that endures to this day.
>
> A dazzling light pierced the heavens, preceding a shock wave with the
> power of a thousand atomic bombs which flattened 80 million trees in a
> swathe of more than 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles).
>
> Evenki nomads recounted how the blast tossed homes and animals into the
> air. In Irkutsk, 1,500 kilometres (950 miles) away, seismic sensors
> registered what was initially deemed to be an earthquake. The fireball
> was so great that a day later, Londoners could read their newspapers
> under the night sky.
>
> What caused the so-called Tunguska Event, named after the Podkamennaya
> Tunguska river near where it happened, has spawned at least a half a
> dozen theories.
>
> The biggest finger of blame points at a rogue rock whose destiny, after
> travelling in space for millions of years, was to intersect with Earth
> at exactly 7:17 am on June 30, 1908.
>
> Even the most ardent defenders of the sudden impact theory acknowledge
> there are many gaps. They strive to find answers, believing this will
> strengthen defences against future Tunguska-type threats, which experts
> say occur with an average frequency from one in 200 years to one in
> 1,000 years.
>
> "Imagine an unspotted asteroid laying waste to a significant chunk of
> land... and imagine if that area, unlike Tunguska and a surprising
> amount of the globe today, were populated," the British science journal
> Nature commented last week.
>
> If a rock was the culprit, the choices lie between an asteroid -- the
> rubble that can be jostled out of its orbital belt between Mars and
> Jupiter and set on collision course with Earth -- and a comet, one of
> the "icy dirtballs" of frozen, primeval material that loop around the
> Solar System.
>
> Comets move at far greater speeds than asteroids, which means they
> release more kinetic energy pound-for-pound upon impact. A small comet
> would deliver the same punch as a larger asteroid.
>
> But no fragments of the Tunguska villain have ever been found, despite
> many searches.
>
> Finding a piece is important, for it will boost our knowledge about the
> degrees of risk from dangerous Near Earth Objects (NEOs), say Italian
> researchers Luca Gasperini, Enrico Bonatti and Giuseppe Longo.
>
> When a new asteroid is detected, its orbit can be plotted for scores of
> years in the future.
>
> Comets are far less numerous than asteroids but are rather more
> worrying, as they are largely an unknown entity.
>
> Most comets have yet to be spotted because they take decades or even
> hundreds of years to go around the Sun and pass our home. As a result,
> any comet on a collision course with Earth could quite literally come
> out of the dark, leaving us negligible time to respond.
>
> "(I)f the Tunguska event was in fact caused by a comet, it would be a
> unique occurrence rather than an important case study of a known class
> of phenomena," Gasperini's team write in this month's issue of
> Scientific American.
>
> "On the other hand, if an asteroid did explode in the Siberian skies
> that June morning, why has no-one yet found fragments?"
>
> NEO experts are likewise unsure about the size of the object.
>
> Estimates, based on the scale of ground destruction, range from three
> metres (10 feet) to 70 metres (227 feet).
>
> All agree that the object, heated by friction with atmospheric
> molecules, exploded far above ground -- between several kilometres
> (miles) and 10 kms (six miles).
>
> But there is fierce debate as to whether any debris hit the ground.
>
> This too is important. When the next Tunguska NEO looms, Earth's
> guardians will have to choose whether to try to deflect it or blow it up
> in space, with the risk that objects of a certain size may survive the
> fiery passage through the atmosphere and hit the planet.
>
> The Italian trio believe the answers lie in a curiously-shaped oval
> lake, called Lake Cheko, located about 10 kilometres (six miles) from
> ground zero.
>
> Computer models, they say, suggest it is the impact crater from a metre-
> (three-feet) -sized fragment that survived the explosion.
>
> They plan a return expedition to Lake Cheko in the hope of reaching a
> dense object of this size, buried 10 metres (32.5 feet) in the lake's
> cone-shaped floor, that reflected sonar waves.
>
> But what if neither comet nor asteroid were to blame?
>
> A rival theory is given an airing in this week's New Scientist.
>
> Lake Cheko does not have the typical round shape of an impact crater,
> and no extraterrestrial material has been found, which means "there's
> got to be a terrestrial explanation," Wolfgang Kundt, a physicist at
> Germany's Bonn University told the British weekly.
>
> He believes the Tunguska Event was caused by a massive escape of 10
> million tonnes of methane-rich gas deep within Earth's crust. Evidence
> of a similar apocalyptic release can be found on the Blake Ridge on the
> seabed off Norway, a "pockmark" of 700 sq. kms (280 sq. miles), Kundt said.
>
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