A photo from open sources PHOTO: ITAR-TASS From the day of the fall the famous Tunguska meteorite has passed more than a hundred years, but around disputes still do not subside of this phenomenon. Russian one of these days scientist Andrei Zlobin said he managed to find the wreckage of this cosmic body. Zlobin is currently working in State Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He published an article, a preprint of which can be found on the Cornelsky website University in the USA. Zlobin presented photos of the stones found, which he considers to be fragments of a meteorite, and outlined his thoughts, why they can be considered as such. According to him, he found stones yet in 1988 during his expedition to the Hushmu River, where Zlobin examined the so-called Suslovskaya funnel. In this swamp he finds nothing failed, but on the banks of the river Zlobin gathered a large collection minerals, which he brought with him to Moscow. For some reason the collection remained unassembled for more than 20 years, but in 2008 it finally learned. Among the samples, three stones were found with characteristic dents on the surface that may testify to their cosmic origin. results Zlobin among the Internet connoisseurs of the Tunguska phenomenon were met with understandable skepticism, since no fragments so far no one has been able to find a meteorite. It is possible that the stones found did indeed come to Earth from space, but they may not be related to the Tunguska phenomenon. Specialists are still on This topic has not been expressed. Around the Tunguska meteorite, scientists are already broke a lot of copies, put forward the most fantastic assumptions right up to the landing of an alien spaceship or one of Nikola Tesla’s experiments. June 30 is known 1908 explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River colossal power, most likely the result of a collision with the Earth some cosmic body. Despite great efforts, including Leonid Kulik, who organized the first expedition to the place meteorite fall, it was not possible to find its remains. Therefore in Currently, most specialists have abandoned initial meteorite hypothesis and it is believed that Tunguska the “meteorite” was actually a comet that consisted mainly from ice and collapsed in the atmosphere (although by tradition it continues call meteorite).
Lydia GRADOVA
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