The Tunguska Event

Tunguska dark matter ball

“…In fact we suggest that one of these balls hit the earth in Tunguska in 1908 causing the famous Tunguska event [1].…”

“…In 1908 a cosmic body is supposed to have fallen down in the Tunguska region of Siberia [1], where its explosion caused the trees to fall down in an area of 2000 km 2 . The cosmic body is commonly assumed to have been a comet or possibly a meteorite.…”

New evidence of meteoritic origin of the Tunguska cosmic body

“…The origin of the Tunguska blast was explained by a huge meteorite impact (e.g. Yavnel, 1957;Florensky, 1963;Longo et al, 1994;Serra et al, 1994;Longo, 2007;Gasperini et al, 2007Gasperini et al, , 2009Badyukov et al, 2011) or by a comet (e.g. Florensky, 1968Florensky, a, 1968Golenetsky et al, 1977;Ganapathy et al, 1983;Zbik, 1984;Nazarov et al, 1990;Hou et al, 1998;Kolesnikov et al, 1999;Rasmussen et al, 1999;Kolesnikov et al, 2003Kolesnikov et al, , 2005Gladysheva, 2007), or by a cosmic body.…”

Planetary science: Tunguska at 100

“…Siberia was and is an empty place -but a blast which, had it happened over Chicago, would have been heard from Georgia to the Dakotas, still drew a lot of attention. In the days following the blast, A. V. Voznesenskij, the director of the Irkutsk magnetic and meteorological observatory near Lake Baikal, began collecting accounts that are vivid with detail 1 . There are people being knocked off their feet, a man needing to hold onto his plough to avoid being swept away by a powerful wind, the feeling of great heat "as if my shirt had caught fire", herds of hundreds of reindeer being killed, trees set alight by the radiance of the fireball only for the flames to be snuffed out by the subsequent blast wave.…”