The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now...
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The Tunguska event—an enormous explosion in a remote region of Siberia on 30 June 1908—has appeared in many works of fiction. The event had a long-lasting...
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best-known recorded events in modern times was the Tunguska event, which occurred in Siberia, Russia, in 1908. The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event is the only known...
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Stony Tunguska, is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. In 1908, an asteroid impacted near the river and later became known as the Tunguska event. The...
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Tunguska may refer to: The Tunguska event, a catastrophic explosion over Siberia in 1908. There are several rivers in Russia called Tunguska, including:...
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History of Siberia (section Tunguska event)
doubled. The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what...
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Verneshot (category Tunguska event)
verneshot event could potentially distribute the iridium globally. A verneshot has been proposed as an alternate explanation for the Tunguska event, widely...
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"Tunguska" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premièred on the Fox network on...
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Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter.: 79–82 Impact events are a common disaster scenario in fiction. The 1908 Tunguska event—an enormous explosion in a remote region...
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Chelyabinsk meteor (redirect from Russian meteor event)
known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, which destroyed a wide, remote, forested, and very sparsely populated...
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Lake Cheko (category Tunguska event)
Krai. It's primarily known for its proposed relationship with the 1908 Tunguska event. Lake Cheko is a small bowl-shaped lake. It is about 500 metres (1,600 ft)...
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Meteor air burst (redirect from List of unexplained explosion events)
powerful meteor air burst in the modern era was the 1908 Tunguska event. During this event a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m (160–200 ft) in size: p. 178 ...
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Antimatter comet (category Tunguska event)
such, Philip J. Wyatt of Florida State University, suggested that the Tunguska event may have been a meteor made of antimatter (Wyatt 1958). Willard Libby...
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Secret Files: Tunguska (German: Geheimakte Tunguska) is a 2006 graphic adventure video game developed by German studios Fusionsphere Systems and Animation...
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Goliath (Westerfeld novel) (category Tunguska event)
rescue Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla from the site of a 1908 Siberian Tunguska event meteorite blast. Along the way, Alek sees through Deryn's male disguise...
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The Tunguska rivers cross the basin. On June 30, 1908, near the Stony Tunguska River the Tunguska Event took place. Boreholes in the Tunguska Basin...
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to mean a fireball that is audible. Selected superbolide air bursts: Tunguska event (Russia, 1908) 2009 Sulawesi superbolide (Indonesia, 2009) Chelyabinsk...
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mini-Tunguska?". Planetary and Space Science. 59 (1): 10–16. Bibcode:2011P&SS...59...10C. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2010.10.012. "100 Years Since Tunguska Phenomenon:...
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Siberia, with the epicenter corresponding to the time and location of the Tunguska Event of 1908. In 1921, Russia initiated a communications blackout with the...
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about 200 to 500 meters in diameter. (For comparison, the one for the Tunguska event was estimated to be in the 60–190 meters range.) Amateur astronomer...
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Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood,...
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2004. It is DeSmedt's debut novel and explores the theory that the Tunguska event was caused by a micro black hole. Released in 2004, Singularity is both...
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Comet Encke (category Tunguska event)
of cometary material on Earth, and with cultural significance. The Tunguska event of 1908 may have been caused by the impact of a cometary body and has...
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Explosion (section Airbursts/Impact events)
per second (7.0 mi/s) for an Earth impacting body). For example, the Tunguska event of 1908 is believed to have resulted from a meteor air burst. Black...
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UFO sightings in Russia (category Historical events in Russia)
some alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Russia: The Tunguska event of 1908, is considered to have been the explosion of a meteor, though...
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Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (redirect from Younger Dryas impact event)
theory concerning impact events Taurids – Annual meteor shower Tollmann's bolide hypothesis – Hypothetical impact event Tunguska event and Chelyabinsk meteor...
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Leonid Kulik (category Tunguska event)
the first Soviet research expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, the largest impact event in recorded history, which had occurred on 30 June 1908...
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Jay, Paul. "The Tunguska event". Retrieved 22 June 2024. Florenskiy, K P (1963). "Preliminary results from the 1961 combined Tunguska meteorite expedition"...
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Asia Karakul Tajikistan Lake Cheko (possibly created in 1908 with the Tunguska event) Siberia, Russia Lake El'gygytgyn Chukotka, Russia Lonar Lake India...
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2005 NB56 could be a possible source of the meteoroid that caused the Tunguska event on 30 June 1908. It has been also suspected to be a dormant comet. One...
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