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Claims of Tunguska Meteorite Fragments “Ridiculous,” Scientist Says
A few of the many trees felled by the 1908 Tunguska explosion, photographed in 1929 (Wikipedia Commons)
Last week, Russian researcher Andrei Zlobin announced that stony fragments collected from a riverbed in 1988 are “probably Tunguska meteorites,” and are likely the remains of whatever cosmic object — thought to be either a comet or an asteroid — entered Earth’s atmosphere over the boggy region of Siberia on June 30, 1908, detonating with an estimated force of 5 megatons and leveling over 800 square miles of forest.
So far, definitive pieces of the original object have yet to be found despite numerous expeditions to the remote impact site. In a paper submitted on April 29, Zlobin cites the melted appearance of several stones found at the bottom of the Khushmo River as a good argument to “confirm the discovery” of Tunguska meteorite fragments.
According to Natalya Artemyeva of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geosphere Dynamics Institute, however, Zlobin’s claim is “ridiculous.”
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/101997/claims-of-tunguska-meteorite-fragments-ridiculous-scientist-says/
I am in the “Nikola Tesla did it” Camp, The guy is just trying to market a gimmick. Seizing on the recent asteroid event phenomena.