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reply posted on 15-1-2007 @ 04:03 PM by Shadowhawk
In 1946 Aleksander Kazantzev, a Russian engineer and science-fiction writer, wrote a story for "Vokrug Sveta" ("Around the World") magazine in which he hypothesized that a nuclear-powered Martian spaceship explodes over Siberia. He later embellished on this theme, wrting further accounts that drew on his post-WWII observations at Hiroshima. Virtually every important astronomer in what was then the Soviet Union condemned his provocative hypothesis.

In 1989, at the invitation of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of Japanese UFO researchers joined the first International Tunguska Expedition. They tried to convince the scientists that the 1908 explosion was caused by a Japanese nuclear-powered spaceship that had left Japan 2,000 years earlier.

Over the years, scientists studied various hypotheses that the tunguska event was caused by meteorite, asteroid, nuclear explosion (possibly a result of antimatter), comet, or even a "black hole" singularity. Factors taken into account included atmospheric resistance, fracturing, abaltion, radiation, post-disintegration flight dynamics, shock wave characteristics, ground effects and so on.

The mystery has not been solved to anyone's satisfaction. Most investigators today favor the asteroid or comet hypotheses. Eyewitness accounts of the event include descriptions that fit these hypotheses when compared to other known oberservations of meteorite falls. The blast pattern was consistent with an object exploding at high altitude with a yield of approximately 40 megatons. The object may have completely vaporized, as did most of the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite (a potentially much denser body that actually struck the ground) in Arizona.
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