ON the morning of June 30, 1908 a meteor caused great damage in the region of the isolated trading station Vanovara in Siberia, Russia. Investigations of this meteor, called the Tunguska Meteor, have been described by Krinov 1 . Light from the meteor was visible even in a sunlit, ...
Effect of the Tunguska Meteor and sunspots on radiocarbon in tree rings. Nature - Lerman, Mook, et al. - 1967 () Citation Context ... presented in their paper appear to lack statistical significance for support of their conclusions. Furthermore, careful C-14 measurements of a tree nearer ...
ON the morning of June 30, 1908 a meteor caused great damage in the region of the isolated trading station Vanovara in Siberia, Russia. Investigations of this meteor, called the Tunguska Meteor, have been described by Krinov 1 . Light from the meteor was visible even in a sunlit, cloudles...
It's enough to give you a migraine, trying to reconcile all the possible factors that might contribute to climate change. But what if they're all inconsequential, and there's only a single event causing the warming trend? The 1908 Tunguska meteor's explosion over Siberia is what one ...
It is the largest reported meteor since the one that hit Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908, according to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The agency’s new gauge of the meteor’s size was a marked increase from its initial estimate. ...
Google Share on Facebook Tunguska Thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia Tun·gus·ka (to͝ong-go͞o′skə, to͞on-) The name of three rivers of central Russia. TheUpper Tunguskais the lower course of the Angara River. TheLower Tunguskaflows about 2,990 km (1,860 mi) north and west to...
Grains from Siberian peat bog may be remnants of the biggest Earth impact in recorded history. Access options Subscription info for Chinese customers We have a dedicated website for our Chinese customers. Please go tonaturechina.comto subscribe to this journal. ...
In 1978, Slovak astronomer Lubor Kresak suggested that the body was a piece of the short-period Comet Encke, which is responsible for the Beta Taurid meteor shower; the Tunguska event coincided with a peak in that shower. It is now known that bodies of this kind explode at frequent interv...
It was the single largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century, after the Tunguska Event of 1908, which wiped out hundreds of square miles of forest in Eastern Russia. Asteroid the size of Arc de Triomphe has 1-in-7000 chance of hitting Earth in September; An impact would be mo...