Tunguska meteorite and lake Cheko, Russian scientists refute the next version

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The Tunguska explosion was a very powerful air explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya River in Tunguska (Siberia, Russia) at 7:17 am on June 30, 1908. A detonation similar to the explosion of a powerful thermonuclear weapon has been attributed to a comet or asteroid.

Witnesses of this phenomenon, describing the explosion, called it a giant mushroom that rose through the air. The animals fled, and the Tungus tents located more than 50 km away, flew into the air.

Until now, no one could explain what exactly exploded over Siberia

The Tunguska event eventually produced over 30 hypotheses and theories about what happened.

Since no meteorite fragment was found, it is believed that what exploded over Russia was a comet of ice, and since it did not reach the Earth's surface, no crater or astrobleme was created.

Therefore, 110 years later, the phenomenon of the Tunguska meteorite remains a mystery.

Until now, it has been argued that a meteorite explosion near the Podkamennaya River, in Siberia, was what ultimately formed Lake Cheko.

However, Russian scientists have proved that this lake cannot be a crater, since it is at least 280 years old.

The trees were burned and knocked down as a result of the Tunguska event. Image Credit

The Tunguska explosion knocked down a forest on an area of 2,150 square kilometers, smashed windows and knocked down people who were in radius of 400 kilometers from the impact zone.

In the following days, the inhabitants of Europe witnessed a number of strange phenomena, such as glowing clouds, colorful sunsets and unusual lights at night.

European media then claimed that it was either a UFO incident or a volcanic eruption.

However, political events in imperial Russia did not allow further investigation of this strange phenomenon.

19 years later, an expedition led by Russian scientist Leonid Kulik arrived in Tunguska to inspect the explosion site.

However, researchers did not find any traces of a meteorite.

Felled taiga

Kulik explained that this is due to the fact that extraterrestrial matter completely burned up when entering the earth's atmosphere.

Much later, in 2007, a scientific team from the University of Bologna (Italy) led by Luca Gasperini proposed a theory according to which Lake Checo was an alleged crater left by the Tunguska meteorite due to its unusual shape and depth.

Gasperini claimed that the existence of this lake was unknown until 1908.

However, in July 2016, a group of scientists from Siberia managed to find out the exact age of Lake Cheko and stated that since the Tunguska region was practically not on the maps until the 20th century, the lake could have existed before the event in the Tunguska region.

To determine the age of the lake using biochemical analysis, bottom samples were taken.

Recently, employees of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian delegation of the Russian Academy of Sciences completed a radioscopic analysis of the samples obtained.

According to the results of the analysis, the age of the lake is at least 280 years, which proves that Cheko is much older than the event at the Podkamennaya River.

The results of this study were published in a specialized scientific journal on July 30, 2017.

With this new discovery, Russian scientists have denied the last hope of the international community to clarify the circumstances surrounding the strange explosion that shook Tunguska and everything else. within a radius of 400 kilometers- one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of the world.