Our Hyper-sensitive Solar System (ICOPS 2006)

The Tunguska Event, an ongoing mystery

Final- Letter to the editor -

Greetings, Oct. 20, 2011 In response to an article i saw in your #9 issue, discussing research into the Tunguska event, i would like to bring to your attention factors which may be important details to consider for this puzzle, each of these factors involve characteristics of the earth/space environment which hint at electrical dynamics playing a role in that explosion.

In the absence of physical debris from a bolide we must look to other sources of extreme force. If you've ever been near an explosive electrical discharge you might relate to what i am about to suggest.

There are at least three key characters in this proposal; our earth's atmosphere being a self repairing leaky capacitor [ 1 ], the occurrence of electromagnetic sub-storms in our planets tail , and the electromagnetic comet-like tail of Venus which reaches out to tickle our planets plasma sphere (magnetosphere) during alignments(*). Solar activity, lunar influences and our planet's own electrical potential also come into play in what is being suggested.

We do not regularly see the full potential of electrical activity in our celestial neighborhood but that was not always the case, Venus was once the "terrible goddess that brought destruction on the earth" "a comet with long flowing hair" and lightning was a common force described during interplanetary discharges.(*) That was many thousands of years ago, but it remains active, even though it is invisible to the eye.(*) So, how long would it take to charge a planetary-size capacitor?

In recent times and with the discovery of sub-storms, the CLUSTER and THEMIS probes are seeing regular discharges in the tail region and we see some of that activity in the form of enhanced aurora displays. Earth's electrical environment is very active and i would not be uncomfortable proposing that man's intrusion into the space environment has not gone unnoticed by the plasma environment which surrounds us. Electrical breakdown pathways are very opportunistic, as Columbia revealed. As a self repairing leaky capacitor, the earth must not be viewed in isolation from the space-plasma environment.
Before space travel and other atmospheric encroachments what was there to short circuit earth's electrical potential?

We also know that the moon has an effect on aspects of the earth, just watch the timing of terra-storms and its orbital relation, especially its passage in line with the solar current. We should not be surprise at the occurrence of electrical storms during those times. One of the most dramatic night-time lightning storms i've ever seen was when earth was in direct line with Venus as the moon approached our tail region. At the time of the Tunguska event it was early morning in Siberia, Venus' electromagnetic Birkeland Current tail was approaching earth while our moon was in eclipse of the sun. I would wonder how this timing would affect earth's electrical equilibrium? I've heard that for several days the sky remained quite bright throughout Eurasia, was this an auroral reaction? Sub-storms occur when the interior region of our tail collapses causing a surge of electrical energy to travel from there toward earth's polar regions,(*) (Tunguska is a far north location). These details may not seem relevant until considered in relation to the plasma environment of space and the electric currents therein. So here, we have our own sub-storm potential and we also have Venus' electromagnetic tail invading our space as the moon passes upstream. I cannot help but wonder how earth's plasma sheath would be deformed by all these bodies upstream, might this lead to a change in the solar flow around earth and an electrical imbalance or fluctuation in the magnetosphere? We all know what happens when you ride in the burble of a moving vehicle,, you get buffeted by strange air flow, this is why ducks don't fly in a straight line, and from an electrical perspective this may explain some of the fluctuations in orbits.
The Sun's solar current, a flow of charged particles, has many new surprises for us as we learn how to measure its behavior and how it affects the bodies which pass through it's 'electric current flow'. When CME's launch from the sun, the earth's surface will soon give an indication of its passage in the form of ground currents.(*) So the suggestion of an electric discharge from the Tunguska site at a time of unique conditions seems not far fetched. The presence of Kimberlite pipes at that region offers one more detail that calls for an electrical explanation,, whether it be a discharge to a meteor or an earth/atmospheric/ionosphere super-discharge, we have some new details to mix into the Tunguska Mystery.

Our great, great, great ancestors would most certainly have been anticipating some catastrophic event around June 30, 1908, had they lived so long as to see Venus' tail sweep by the earth once more.

(*)This note to the editor, complete with references and other details, can be found at www.para-az.com/boltfrombelow2.html. .... z dahlen parker

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Additionally, at the time of the Tunguska event, geomagnetic anomalies were detected, giving another piece to add to a mystery which has not yet come to rest on a certain cause for what produced the explosion in the Tunguska River Valley. But we might someday say that the final chapter of this mystery is yet to be written, especially in the absence of a debris field and the curious timing of Venus' passage between the earth and the Sun, and in light of the electrical potentials that are yet to be fully realized in our universe. Science changes our understanding of the past as long as we remain teachable and fairly consider all the evidence even if its offered as a detail in the global report of human history.

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