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Contents 1 ? 2 Problems 3 Bolide or bomb? 4 Kosmopoisk

[edit]  ?

I paid attention to the article but it didn't put out.  ;) Seriously, does anyone know what the problem is with this article? I could see it getting a "Current Events" tag but even that seems a bit much. Rob 14:13, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Problems

One: this article indulges in speculations that are not suitable for the encyclopedia (it reads like a conspiricy theory).

Two: there are various inconsistencies. Most obvious: a 1 kilotonne blast is a few-meter object. Tunguska was maybe 50 m. Michaelbusch 06:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

This paragraph:

Information about the event appeared in the mass media and among scientists after only a week. Initially no one was able to understand the magnitude of the explosion. A small expedition, sent by the Institute of Sun–Earth Physics (Irkutsk), tried to find a "meteorite" within about 10 km from Bodaybo town (people told them—"it has fallen after the nearest mountain!"). At first scientists tried to find only a meteorite, without analyzing any other ideas about the nature of the event, and they tried to prevent the information about it from appearing in mass-media.

could use a lot of rewriting by someone who knows something about it. The last sentence needs citation and the whole thing is a little unclear. --Xkcd 02:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)xkcd

[edit] Bolide or bomb?

Radioactivity and an EMP suggest that it may have been a bomb test -- unofficial, presumably. Especially if there was active suppression of the press accompanying the event.

If so, tritium suggests a fusion device, and the small yield suggests the trigger failed to initiate the fusion component of the bomb. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.212.30 (talk • contribs) 07:02, July 17, 2006 69.196.212.30

[edit] Kosmopoisk

Kosmopoisk is an organization I would not trust at all. They are (re)searching UFOs, ghosts and different paranormal things, being very unreliable source of information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Varnav (talk • contribs) 21:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)