Tunguska Crater Found?

[Greg Bryant]

Italian researchers have reported what may be the missing crater from the Tunguska explosion, which flattened thousands of square kilometres in Siberia 99 years ago.

Details here.

http://www.astmag.com.au/News_200706_Tunguska.htm

[ballaratdragons]

You can see it in Google Earth. I posted the co-ords a few days ago.

60*54'06.96"N
101*55'44.94"E

:thumbsup:
There is a small lake about 8k to the NNW like they say but it is very small. The crater at the co-ords I gave is huge!

[h0ughy]

nice find Ken - thanks for posting this Greg, I have always thought that there was more to this story?

[mickoking]

It would be an interesting place for a holiday for those who like adventure.

[Blue Skies]

From a tour of several impact sites in West Aus I learnt that a 1km rock will create a 30km impact structure. They were both compund structures, though. I would imagine that the Tunguska crater, originating from a large chunk shot off from the break up of the original object as I understood from reading, would only create a simple crater, though. Need more info!

[ispom]

thx for the news about Tunguska and Coordinates for Google Earth,
I had since long time a especially interest in this object :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Nice report, Thanks Greg for the heads-up. A very interesting event, that one. I can only imagine what would've happened if it occurred above a populated region.

[Ric]

Thanks for the link Greg, a very interesting story indeed. It adds more to the 99 year old mystery.

Cheers

[sheeny]

Here's the article from news @ nature if you can get into it before they close the free access period...

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070625/full/070625-8.html

Al.

[Blue Skies]

Darn, closed!

[ballaratdragons]

Here's a good link for new Tunguska Crater info:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6239334.stm

[bojan]

Gone...

[gary]

In those documentaries where teams of scientists go there, you see them going
bananas with the millions of biting insects in the marshes such as mosquitoes
and horse-flies. And loving it. :thumbsup:

[danielsun]

Thanks for the links guys, very interesting.

[AstroJunk]

Looks pretty natural to me, and quite in keeping with the other merged ox-bow lakes in the area. Should be easy enough to date sufficiently accurately with a few sediment core samples of the lake beds.

I'll let the Itallians do it though. The Russians didn't send their undesirables to Siberia because it would make a pleasant change for them!

[Stevo69]

Can someone convert the lat/long to decimal for me. I'm new to Google Earth, unless there is a way to put the full dd mm ss etc..



hoo roo

[ballaratdragons]

Steve, if you look down the bottom of the screen you will see the co-ordinates change as you move the mouse around. Just keep moving the mouse around the Earth until you get sort of close, then zoom in and keep watching those co-ords at the bottom :thumbsup:

[erick]

I don't have Google Earth on this computer to try, but I'm sure that if you just type in deg, min, sec it knows how to interpret that string??

[Stevo69]

ballaratdragons, thanks for that. I found it (I feel like an idiot):doh::doh: