Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:56:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tunguska event centennial today
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> Today (June 30th in the relevant time zone) is the 100th anniversary
> of the Tunguska event, in which nearly a thousand square miles of
> Siberian forest were flattened by a tremendous explosion.  Asteroid?
> Comet?  Starship?  Antimatter?  Time traveler with an H-bomb?  Nobody
> knows.

Most likely asteroid or comet.  There's persuasive evidence either way.

> Could it happen again today, perhaps over a major city?
> Nobody knows.

It could happen any time.  We're most at risk every ten years.

Source: _Voices of the Rocks_ by Robert Schoch.

=Tamar