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
In June 1908 a massive air burst of a meteor or comet (10-15 megatons TNT – 1000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) knocked over an estimated 80 million trees over 800 square miles in Siberia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event] A Russian scientist Vladimir S...
straw; (g) manually constructed EDS-based phase map of the same image, color-coded as in the previous example. (h) SEM image of leaf imprint into the clay roofing material, showing the ribbed structure of a leaf; (i) photomicrograph of the same object....
The explosion would have been bigger than the Tunguska event, on the order of a thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. It may also explain that strange lacuna in Near Eastern history, called the Late Bronze Age Gap. The study authors also believe it to be physical evidence of a...
The manual gives not only gameplay instructions but also background information on the Tunguska phenomenon, including several popular theories postulated over the years about the cause of this event. In an unusual decision, the developers have decided to release an update patch (version 1.02) that ...