11-12-2009, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by allanuk
A similar sized object slammed into Tunguska, Siberia in 1908. The impact created a blast so powerful it levelled 1,200 square miles of forest.
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The Tunguska Event was a powerful explosion that occurred in an uninhabited and desolate area near the Tunguska River in Russia, on June 30, 1908.
Although the cause of the explosion is the subject of debate, it is commonly believed to have been caused by the explosion of a large meteoroid or comet fragment, occurring the in Earth's atmosphere about 5?10 kilometers (3?6 miles) high.
The blast flattened an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers, but no "smoking gun" meteorite has ever been found. Different studies have yielded varying estimates of the object's size, but there is general agreement that it was a few tens of meters across.
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