3 Ton Meteorite Stolen 273
morpheus83 writes "Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that thieves have stolen a three-ton meteorite from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908. The massive three tonne rock was bought to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called Tunguska event- a mysterious mid air explosion over Siberia in 1908 was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The foundation's director Yury Lavbin claimed to have discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft during the expedition."
Wreckage (Score:5, Insightful)
Please, end the meme (Score:2, Insightful)
Well, except maybe "I, for one, welcome our new asteroid stealing overlords from Soviet Russia."
Yeah right. (Score:3, Insightful)
And now, almost a 100 years later, we suddenly get to hear that they lost a 3 ton meteor (how the hell do you lose a 3 ton rock?) and oh yeah, btw, that was the meteor that caused the incident!....
No worries, we had it lying in our backyard all the time, never felt a urge or saw the reason to let the rest of the world know....
Yeah, right.
Re:Wreckage (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I am thinkink.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:How? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:BadAstronomy has covered it already... (Score:3, Insightful)
See, already we've got more coverage than this badastronomy site. Good stuff.
And as for this well known "fact", it's a fact provided you discount this 2004 supposed meteorite find. So using this "fact" to in turn discredit the find is circular.
Re:Unsolved? (Score:2, Insightful)