WI: Tunguska Event called Moscow Event

This is a pretty touchy subject here. Most PODs can be explained as something like "A quantum fluctuation in someone's brain causes em to dodge a bullet/have a stroke/decide to go to China." This one can't, unless you allow butterflies to propagate through space and significantly redirect a celestial body--and if they can do that, it won't* be our 1908 Earth it hits.

*9999999999999999999999999999 times out of 10000000000000000000000000000, at least
 

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The search engine of the board is a bit fickle. If it's working, you should be able to dig up a few earlier considerations of the Tunguska blast levelling other urban areas. I think London, Berlin, St Petersburg and Paris have all come up, each in their own threads. But, as I say, finding those depends on a working search engine.
 
Could the object, be slower exploding over Moscow, causing the Tunguska Event's object to wreck Moscow?

No, not without some outer space POD (which is, as Codae stated, quite implausable). The "rock" in question somehow needs to enter the earth's atmosphere several hours earlier and on a trajectory taking it 345 miles (555 kilometers) to the south of its OTL path in order to strike Moscow.
 
This is a pretty touchy subject here. Most PODs can be explained as something like "A quantum fluctuation in someone's brain causes em to dodge a bullet/have a stroke/decide to go to China." This one can't, unless you allow butterflies to propagate through space and significantly redirect a celestial body--and if they can do that, it won't* be our 1908 Earth it hits.

*9999999999999999999999999999 times out of 10000000000000000000000000000, at least

N-body problems are chaotic, so actually yeah he can do the fluctuation thong.

Now what happens if Moscow is trashed? Revolution probably. No one is going to think God approves of the Czar if this happens.

Where was Nicky 2 when this happened anyway?
 
Could the object, be slower exploding over Moscow, causing the Tunguska Event's object to wreck Moscow?

Slowing it down and having it hit Moscow would be what they call ASB. This is just a nit pick mind you, but orbital mechanics don't work the same way as history. If the object was a few hours late, then most likely it would have sailed right past Earth.

Now if the object had its orbit altered to make it slam into western Russia, then the Tsars are screwed. Who knows, something like that might even accelerate rocketry, in hopes of destroying asteroids (though altering their orbits would be simpler).
 
The search engine of the board is a bit fickle. If it's working, you should be able to dig up a few earlier considerations of the Tunguska blast levelling other urban areas. I think London, Berlin, St Petersburg and Paris have all come up, each in their own threads. But, as I say, finding those depends on a working search engine.
Here's the one for Paris. Its a Double-Blind What-If.
 
You could have the object's trajectory be altered by a higher concentration of space dust drifting in the way--even a minor adjustment could result in a sufficiently diverted course. That said, I think this is a pretty DTD topic here.

Oh, and at this point the Russian royal family would be residing in Saint Petersburg, the actual capital then, for what it's worth.
 
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