The Tunguska event was an enormous explosion that occurred at about 7:14 AM on June 30, 1908, at an altitude of 5–10 km (15,000–30,000 feet), flattening some 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) and charring more than 100 square km of pine forest near the P
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event on earth in recorded history. Studies have yielded different estimates of the meteoroid's size, on the order of 60 to 190 metres (200 to 620 feet), depending on whether the body was a comet or a denser asteroid. Since the 1908 event, there...
The Tunguska Event. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Rickman, H. (eds) Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_18 Download citation .RIS .ENW .BIB DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_18 Publisher NameSpringer,...
June 30 is the anniversary of the Tunguska impact, also known as the Tunguska event. Int'l Asteroid Day to be marked on June 30 The so-called Tunguska event in 1908 involved an object more than twice as large, at around 50 m. Space Invaders: How grave is the threat that a giant as...
such as an asteroid or comet impact or airburst, could seriously disturb atmospheric water levels, destroying persistent so-called 'silver', or noctilucent, clouds composed of ice crystals in the high altitude mesosphere (50 to 85km). The Tunguska Event was just such an event, and coincides ...
The event also happens to coincide with the period when warming began rising steadily during the twentieth century. With people becoming increasingly aware of the damage a massive Earth-bound asteroid could cause, Shaidurov's theory demonstrates how Earth impacts can have varying degrees of effect...
How did the Tunguska event affect life?Asteroid Impacts:Impacts of asteroids on the Earth can vary in severity from "largely unnoticed" to "devastating". The size of the object incoming to the atmosphere can vary significantly, with the Tunguska asteroid (or comet) being relatively small, at ...
asteroid impact eventcomet impactatmospheric explosionTunguskaAll these questions might be solved much faster within the frames of international scientific cooperation as recently oullined and of continued fieldwork in the area of the Tunguska explosion. In this way the necessary conditions will be ...
The explosion over Tunguska, Central Siberia, in 1908 released 10 to 20 megatons (high explosive equivalent) of energy at an altitude of about 10 km. This event represents a typical fate for stony asteroids tens of metres in radius entering the Earth's atmosphere at common hypersonic velocities...
The Tunguska event is believed to have been the loudest sound ever — certainly the loudest in human history — and it was definitely in a forest with very few people around. Even the nearest settlement is some 65 km away, and is barely more than a village — that's Vanavara, formerly...