Close Encounters in Siberia.

[Baby Huey]

Documentary about the meteorite crash that wiped out a large part of Siberia on More 4 now. Pretty interesting so far.

You can catch it on More 4+1 at 11pm.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Fell asleep watching this tonight, it was quite interesting so annoyed I missed it. Will look for it on the channel four catch up thingy.

[Gun]

I caught the beginning of this but then had to call it a night, I've read up about it before and it really was a huge blast, just imagine the devastation if it had happened over a major city.

[Eric Mc]

The 100th anniversary was last year.

[jimpritchard]

Read the Arthur C Clarke book about this years ago, I imagine the destruction if it HAD hit a town would have been on par with Hiroshima / Nagasaki..

Have the programme Sky+'d, just needed to find to watch it.

[anonymous-user]

jimpritchard said:

Read the Arthur C Clarke book about this years ago, I imagine the destruction if it HAD hit a town would have been on par with Hiroshima / Nagasaki..

According to Wiki (yes I know, but this one has good references) estimates of the blast are around 10-15 megatons, which makes it roughly 1000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. The blast caused damage over 830 sq. miles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_blast

[Eric Mc]

Didn't know Clarke had written a specific book on this incident - although he used it as inspiration for his novel "Hammer of God".

It was covered really well in Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series back in 1980.

[jimpritchard]

Sorry.. the memory's playing tricks, it MAY have been the 80's tv series...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247885/

[Eric Mc]

Sounds more likely.

The series should really have been called "Arthur C Clarke endorses documentary on weird things about which he had nothing to do except the opening and closing sequences".