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 ...
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Years have passed since then, but even today no one can fully explain the Tunguska explosion. One recent theory is that a meteor exploded just before it hit the earth's surface. That is why there was no crater like those in Arizona and Australia. However, no one knows for certain, and ...
(1670 miles) long; theStony(Podkamennaya)Tunguska1550 km (960 miles) long; theUpper(Verkhnyaya)Tunguskawhich is the lower course of the Angara. The area was the scene in 1908 of a massive explosion believed to have been the result of the disintegration in the atmosphere of a small comet...
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...
The Tunguska explosion burneda. everything in the areab. most but not all trees in the areac. all of the buildings in the aread. a few trees in the area6. At frst peoplethought caused the explosion.a.gasc. an earthquakeb. a meteord. a spaceship7. A meteor isn't a good ...
They expected to find a giant hole in the ground where the meteor hit. Such a thing didn’t exist. Moreover, they couldn’t find any traces of meteor metal anywhere. In the central zone, they found trees that were still standing and burnt but oddly had all the branches and bark remove...
Abstract 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...
That asteroid, known as the Tunguska event, caused an explosion that leveled nearly 500,000 square acres of forest land in Siberia. 'This was a true shock': Scientists almost didn't detect approach of 'city-kille To put it into perspective, the meteor that caused the Tunguska event in Ru...
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...