Are These Fragments From The Mysterious Forest-Flattening 1908 Tunguska Explosion?

Monday, May 6, 2013 - 16:30 in Astronomy & Space

Tunguska Rock Samples Zlobin claims these three stones, which he collected during an expedition to the Tunguska impact zone 25 years ago, are remnants of whatever object exploded in Earth's atmosphere above Russia June 30, 1908. No. 1 is nicknamed "dental crown", No. 2 is called "whale" and No. 3 is "boat," for the purposes of easy identification. Andrei Zlobin/Russian Academy of Sciences During breakfast on June 30, 1908, a man named S.B. Semenov was sitting on a porch at a northern Russian trading post when the sky burst into flames. He looked up and saw the heavens appear to split apart, and he felt as though his shirt was on fire; after a moment, a heavy blow knocked him off his feet and he passed out. The inferno, afterward known as the Tunguska Event, was a high-altitude explosion of a meteor or a comet--but nobody ever found the remains. Whatever...

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