
On the morning of 30 June 1908, in the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin of Siberia, the largest cosmic airburst in recorded history occurred. The event flattened and incinerated an estimated 80 million trees across an area of approximately 2,150 square kilometers. The energy released by the explosion is estimated at 10 to 15 megatons of TNT equivalent, roughly a thousand times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.One of the most striking features of the event is the absence
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Muhammet Emin Göksu

30 Haziran 1908 sabahı Sibirya'nın Podkamennaya Tunguska Nehri havzasında, tarihin en büyük kozmik hava patlaması meydana geldi. Bu olay, yaklaşık 2150 kilometrekarelik bir alanda tahmini 80 milyon ağacı devirmiş ve yakmıştır. Patlamanın enerji salınımı 10-15 megaton TNT eşdeğeri olarak tahmin edilmektedir, bu da 1945'te Hiroşima'ya atılan atom bombasının gücünün yaklaşık bin katına denk gelmektedir.Olayın en dikkat çekici özelliklerinden biri, yüzeyde büyük bir çarpma krateri bırakmamasıdır. Bi
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Muhammet Emin Göksu

On the morning of June 30, 1908, the largest cosmic air explosion in history occurred in the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin of Siberia. The event felled and burned an estimated 80 million trees over an area of approximately 2,150 square kilometers. The energy released from the explosion is estimated at 10–15 megatons of TNT equivalent, approximately a thousand times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.One of the most striking features of the event is that it did not leav
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Muhammet Emin Göksu