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Tunguska news on AOL/BBC/Examiner.com
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pys-@aol.com
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Jun 28, 2009 10:53 PDT
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"June 27) - More than
100 years ago, an enigmatic explosion devastated 80 million trees in a
Russian forest. Today, researchers say the mystery known as the
Tunguska event may be solved.
They say new evidence suggests a comet -- not a meteor as previously thought -- was behind the explosion. And, as the BBC reported, they're pointing to clouds that form thousands of miles away at Earth's polices to explain the theory."
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"All
of this, according to scientists, suggests a water-laden comet that
shed its icy coating in that same part of the atmosphere is what
flattened 830 square miles of Siberian forests in 1908, reported Examiner.com.
"It's totally new
and unexpected physics," Michael Kelley of Cornell University told the
BBC. "It's almost like putting together a 100-year-old murder mystery."
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