[meteorite-list] Tunguska wood

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:31:48 -0500, you wrote:

>> it happened in 1908 - they couldn't blame nukes - but just imagine the
>> consequences of it happening 4 hours later over the eastern seaboard of 


>so next in line for being whacked by
>Tunguska is the rest of Russia, eastern
>Europe, western Europe, England...

I think of Sikhote Alin.  Not much longer at all sooner and it would have hit
Japan instead of Siberia.  Not nearly as big a blast as Tunguska, but it still
could have done nasty things to a population center (and nukes sure would have
been fresh on their minds then).