The scientist, Dr. Eduard Drobyshevsky, is the chief researcher at the Russian Academy of Science. He claims his new theory explains that massive blast zone at Tunguska. The explosion was the equivalent of between 5 to 30 megatons of TNT in this remote region of Siberia. An area of approximately 830 square miles was destroyed, with some 80 million trees flattened. Initially, the hypothesis was that a huge meteorite struck the area. However, scientific expeditions have failed to locate what would have to be an obvious crater. According to the Russian scientist, an icy comet nucleus saturated with dissolved hydrogen and oxygen entered the Earth's atmosphere tangentially, with a body speed of about 20 km per second, a size of 200 x 500 meters, and weighing around 5 to 50 tons. A portion of the nucleus, weighing approximately 1 million tons, detonated at high altitude, with the main part of the comet's nucleus going through the Earth's atmosphere and back out into space again.
Satnews Daily
April 3rd, 2009
Tunguska Tree Smasher Hypothesis
The scientist, Dr. Eduard Drobyshevsky, is the chief researcher at the Russian Academy of Science. He claims his new theory explains that massive blast zone at Tunguska. The explosion was the equivalent of between 5 to 30 megatons of TNT in this remote region of Siberia. An area of approximately 830 square miles was destroyed, with some 80 million trees flattened. Initially, the hypothesis was that a huge meteorite struck the area. However, scientific expeditions have failed to locate what would have to be an obvious crater. According to the Russian scientist, an icy comet nucleus saturated with dissolved hydrogen and oxygen entered the Earth's atmosphere tangentially, with a body speed of about 20 km per second, a size of 200 x 500 meters, and weighing around 5 to 50 tons. A portion of the nucleus, weighing approximately 1 million tons, detonated at high altitude, with the main part of the comet's nucleus going through the Earth's atmosphere and back out into space again.