# Possible Explanation for Tunguska Event

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-explanation-for-tunguska-event/409555 "2007-06-27T00:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-explanation-for-tunguska-event/409555/1 "2007-06-27T00:19:34Z")

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According to [this story](http://news.aol.com/story/_a/famous-1908-impact-crater-found/20070626132209990001), there may finally be an explanation for the 1908 Tunguska event. You can read Uncle Cecil’s take: [What caused the massive 1908 explosion in Tunguska, Siberia?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030228.html). Italian scientists believe they have identified an impact crater, now filled by a lake.

I love science!!

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-explanation-for-tunguska-event/409555/2 "2007-06-27T00:21:18Z")

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Awesome.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-explanation-for-tunguska-event/409555/3 "2007-06-27T14:26:28Z")

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Yeah, I know that, relatively speaking, a 164-ft-deep crater is “small,” and 800 sq miles of flattened trees is what happens whe Death chucks a pebble at us, but I’m still real glad my grandparents were on another hemisphere in 1908.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-explanation-for-tunguska-event/409555/4 "2007-06-27T20:17:59Z")

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[QUOTE=dropzone]  
Yeah, I know that, relatively speaking, a 164-ft-deep crater is “small,” and 800 sq miles of flattened trees is what happens whe Death chucks a pebble at us, but I’m still real glad my grandparents were on another hemisphere in 1908.  
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You have to think that it was quite fortunate that the wobbles of space didn’t send into the Earth about 5 hours later, and a hair to the south… :eek: