On the morning of June 30, 1908 in remote Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River, a blue-white fireball exploded with the force of a 10-to-15 megaton H-bomb. The explosion flattened 60 million trees and devastated 2,000 square kilometers.
The shockwave knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundred’s of kilometers away. Interestingly, a ring of burnt trees were left standing near the epicenter—even stranger, several unburnt trees remained in the heart of the center.
Seismic stations across Europe and Asia felt the explosion, a pulse of air-pressure circled the Earth twice, and astronomers observed a red glowing haze in the upper atmosphere for several nights. The Smithsonian and Mount Wilson Observatories reported a decrease in atmospheric transparency that would persist for months.
For well over one-hundred years, the appointed experts continue to debate Tunguska—comet or asteroid?!? In the EU Model a comet is just an asteroid large enough to hold its own charge as it moves through the Sun’s electric field. For example, asteroid Chiron’s chaotic orbit between Saturn and Uranus unexpectedly sprouted a tail in 1989. Now it’s classified as proto-comet 95P/Chiron.
To accurately solve the Tunguska mystery, a theory needs to explain all the observations and data collected. The EU Model does this. The Standard Model does not. As Wal Thornhill would say, the answers to these questions become obvious. It’s electric.
Narrated by Matt Finn.
