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Bookmark or Share- The Tunguska explosion, 115 years ago today - EarthSkyJune 30, 2023. Fallen trees from the 1908 Tunguska explosion at Tunguska in Siberia. It wasn’t until 1927 that Russian scientists – led by Leonid Kulik – were finally able to get to the scene....
- The Tunguska Mystery--100 Years Later | Scientific AmericanJune 30, 2008. 13 min read. The Tunguska Mystery--100 Years Later. Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save Earth in the...
- Tunguska event - WikipediaThe Tunguska event (occasionally also called the Tunguska incident) was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai ), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908.
- Tunguska event Facts | BritannicaTunguska event, enormous explosion that occurred at about 7:14 AM on June 30, 1908, at an altitude of 5–10 km (15,000–30,000 feet), flattening some 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) and charring more than 100 square km of pine forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, Russia.
- 115 Years Ago: The Tunguska Asteroid Impact Event - NASAJul 05, 2023. Article. On June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia. Local eyewitnesses in the sparsely populated region reported seeing a fireball and hearing a large explosion. They also reported massive forest fires, and trees blown over for miles.
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