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    The Tunguska event (occasionally also called the Tunguska incident) was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • theory concerning impact events Taurids – Annual meteor shower Tollmann's bolide hypothesis – Hypothetical impact event Tunguska event and Chelyabinsk meteor...
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  • made by Union Pictures 17 November The Day the Earth Was Hit, the Tunguska event on 30 June 1908; David Morrison (astrophysicist) of NASA Ames; Duncan...
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  • notable for being the nearest populated place to the site of the 1908 Tunguska event. The locality, also occasionally named Anavar (Анавар), as it exists...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Ice (Dukaj novel) (category Tunguska event)
    never occurred and Poland is still under Russian rule. Following the Tunguska event, the Ice, a mysterious form of matter, has covered parts of Siberia...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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