| Description |
1 online resource (166 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tunguska, 100 years of mystery -- Meteors, chapter of astronomy -- Tunguska ground zero -- The cometary hypotheses and the Taurid meteors -- Comet Encke -- The sun, the cosmos and coronal mass ejections -- Asteroids and the asteroid hypotheses -- Other explanations and perspectives on the Tungus event. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Something exploded above Siberia in 1908 and no one is quite sure what? or why. What burned 830 square miles of forest and some 30 million trees on a fine summer's morning? This book combines a hard popular science approach and lively description of the "Tungus event", giving the reader the stories of the early expeditions, the research that has gone on over a century, and a range of possible explanations. |
| Subject |
Tunguska meteorite.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
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Tunguska meteorite. (OCoLC)fst01158932
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| Added Title |
Tungus event |
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Great Siberian meteorite |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Engledew, John, 1954- Tungus event, or, The great Siberian meteorite. New York : Algora Pub., ©2010 9780875867816 (DLC) 2010000102 (OCoLC)501180241 |
| ISBN |
9780875867823 (electronic bk.) |
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0875867820 (electronic bk.) |
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