Comet, Aliens, or Death Ray? The Tunguska Event (Episode #40)

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On June 30th 1908 at 7:17 AM a massive explosion, 1000 times more powerful than that of Hiroshima, occurred in a remote area of Siberia. Known as the Tunguska Event, eye witnesses, dozens of miles away, not only claimed to have seen this explosion, but were knocked off their feet by it. The impact was registered on seismometers all around the world with some readings hitting 5 on the Richter scale. Investigations in the area found no trace of whatever caused the explosion, just that 80 million trees were knocked down over an area of 800 square miles. Theories about the cause range from a comet exploding in the atmosphere to more outlandish ideas, such as aliens or Nikola Tesla testing a death ray.

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EPISODE RESOURCES

• ‌“This Month in Physics History.” American Physical Society, www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/201806/history.cfm
• Paoletti, Gabe. "The Mysterious Tunguska Event That Baffles Scientists to This Day." All That’s Interesting, All That’s Interesting , Dec. 2017, allthatsinteresting.com/tunguska-event
• ‌“Tunguska Event.” Wikipedia, 5 June 2024, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
• ‌Choi, Charles Q. "Huge Tunguska Explosion Remains Mysterious 100 Years Later." Space.com, 30 June 2008, www.space.com/5573-huge-tunguska-explosion-remains-mysterious-100-years.html
• Dunning, Brian. "What Really Happened at Tunguska." Skeptoid, 26 June 2012, skeptoid.com/episodes/4803
• Uri, John. “115 Years Ago: The Tunguska Asteroid Impact Event - NASA.” NASA, 5 July 2023, www.nasa.gov/history/115-years-ago-the-tunguska-asteroid-impact-event/
• ‌Jay, Paul. “The Tunguska Event.” CBC, 30 June 2008, www.cbc.ca/news/science/the-tunguska-event-1.742329
• Wilkerson, M.S. & Worden, S.P. "On Egregious Theories-The Tunguska Event." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 19, 1978, pp. 282-284, articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1978QJRAS..19..282W/0000288.000.html

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