What Is The Cause Of The Tunguska Explosion

I think that a bomb caused the Tunguska Explosion, because there is no way a meteorite could have caused it and not left an indention. The Tunguska Explosion happened on the morning of June 30, 1908, at 7:17 A.M. (Yeomans). It occurred in the area of Stony Tunguska River near Siberia, Russia. Even though the explosion occurred on June 30, the first report of the explosion was on July 2. If the explosion was as big as the witnesses say it was, I don’t see how people didn’t know about it. Witnesses say where it happened there were not many people present, so no one got hurt. However, even though not many people lived there, some still had houses and clothes there, that were destroyed.
It is argued that the explosion actually was caused by a meteorite, or an asteroid. However, I think that a bomb caused the explosion because if it was an asteroid, there would …show more content…
“According to some people, they say that it flattened as many as 80 million trees within a 31 mile range” (Kelley). Windows were smashed 35 miles away, it had to be something powerful to shatter a window from 35 miles away. A meteorite is powerful, but a bomb can be just as powerful . When people say that it was a meteorite or an asteroid, why wasn’t there a crater where it hit?
There is so much to still be investigated on the Tunguska Explosion, but I think a powerful bomb made the explosion. I think maybe someone wanted to start a little war, but it never happened. “It is like a one-hundred year old murder mystery” (Kelley). Even though it was over a century people are still conducting research to figure out what really caused the explosion. There have been some big ideas about what caused it, such as an encounter with aliens, or even a mini-black hole.
There have been some good arguments about what caused the gruesome explosion, but I still believe that a bomb caused the explosion. There would have been pieces of debris left