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The Tungus event, or, The great Siberian meteorite / John Engledew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engledew, John, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tunguska meteorite.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Tungus event
- Great Siberian meteorite
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2010.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87586-782-0
- OCLC:
- 693761543
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