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 (Ken)]

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


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 (David)]

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 (Jacquie)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

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!

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

[iceman (Mike)]

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 (Al)]

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/2007/0706.../070625-8.html

Al.

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Darn, closed!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

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

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

[bojan]

Gone...

[gary]

Originally Posted by mickoking

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

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.

[danielsun]

Thanks for the links guys, very interesting.

[AstroJunk (Jonathan)]

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 (Ken)]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[erick (Eric)]

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)