Publisher's Synopsis
The Tunguska event was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (N. S.). The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of the forest, and eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died in the event. The explosion is generally attributed to the airburst of a stony meteorite about 100 meters (330 feet) in size. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found; the object is thought to have disintegrated at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers (3 to 6 miles) rather than to have hit the surface of the Earth.
Thousands of scientific papers have attempted to get to the bottom of exactly what happened that day. With force comparable to a nuclear blast, the destructive nature of the event is astounding. On that day, 80 million trees were knocked down, and the sound was heard across the continent. In the days afterward, the night skies were lit up with strange lights.....
In this book, we will examine the explosion itself and the aftereffects that have defied explanation. Trying to figure out what caused the Tunguska Event is one thing, attempting to understand how this explosion affected us as a planet is another matter entirely. Could it be that the answers lay elsewhere?
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