Tunguska Event: where would you put it?

[Googolbyte]

TRY NOT TO SKIM-READ:rolleyes:
The Tunguska Event, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m. on June 30, 1908. Although the meteor or comet burst in the air rather than directly hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact.

Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 megatons to as high as 30 megatons of TNT, with 10–15 megatons the most likely. The explosion knocked over an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles). It is estimated that the shockwave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a large metropolitan area. For more Info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

The POD is actually many years prior when a far smaller asteriod(assuming the Tunguska Event was a meteorite impact) collided with the Tunguska Meteorite altering its path so it could potentially hit any location on the earth within 24 hours of OTL strike time.

My question is What is the most significant 20th century altering location it could strike and where would you have it strike?

For collision damage prediction use http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html :D

[BlackWave]

Is it more, or does the damage prediction thing not go outside the US?

EDIT:Never mind.

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

I voted that it should hit Miss Earth. I think her behaviour was totally inappropriate for even a Beauty Queen.:)

[Iori]

My vote goes to London, it'd be interesting to see how the world would react with the government of the British Empire and the capital destroyed and massive catastrophe in the home isles.

[Bill Cameron]

TRY NOT TO SKIM-READ:rolleyes:


Try to use the "Search" function :rolleyes:


http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=128600&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=116937&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=116861&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=112805&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=111030&highlight=Tunguska

[LittleSpeer]

i would rather the russian capital for a more interesting world war 1 on the eastern front

[Googolbyte]

Try to use the "Search" function :rolleyes:


http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=128600&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=116937&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=116861&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=112805&highlight=Tunguska
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=111030&highlight=Tunguska

I did but got bored looking so gave up:(
plus this is different enough from the others isn't it?

[Bill Cameron]

I did but got bored looking so gave up


Ahh... The ADD/ADHD generation... :rolleyes:

plus this is different enough from the others isn't it?

Not particularly. Each of the threads it took me a few minutes to find involves cities listed in your poll.

Tunguska is a "Done To Death" subject, especially since Stirling's Peshawar Lancers book.


Bill

[catboy637]

Vienna, if the Archduke and evryone dies, then WWI won't start over his death.
Otherwise, same place.

[grdja83]

Someplace more relevant, but still in a rural region so life loss is minimized. To have it act as a more general warning about "death from the sky" to people once meteors and comets are accepted by mainstream science to be impacting earth.

So somewhere in US Midwest, south Canada or some unlucky location in Europe.

[snowzinger]

Orbit the earth for a few days before crashing into the Moon while in full view of the world. That is BOUND to turn some heads.

[Fenrir_Angerboda]

Berlin.
Might make some very intresting butterflies

[Paul MacQ]

Let me see how big an event can we make this

Looking at events happening in June 1908 if it hits around this time My pick is St Petersburg, You have the first visit of a Reigning British Monarch to Russia

How would History be changed if you bag the following in one go.

Nicholas II Empress Alexandra. all there children Russian Premier P.A Stolypin Russian Foreign Minister A.P Izvolsky.

British side Edward VII Queen Alexandra, Princess Victoria and a Member of the British party one British First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher

[wormyguy]

The original location! Why are people so intent on killing tens of thousands? :(

[Michael Busch]

Partial objection (as I pointed out in one of the earlier threads on the subject):

Given any plausible orbital diversion, you can only change the impact point to anything in the hemisphere facing the impactor. Anything else requires changing the time of the impact, which leaves the Earth well off to one side. For the purposes of this discussion, that means anything in the Americas is excluded.

You can keep targets in Eurasia, Africa, and Australia, and of course missing the Earth.