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COMET AND ASTEROID RISK: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 1908 TUNGUSKA EVENT

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Early in the morning on June 30, 1908, a giant airburst occurred over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Central Siberia, Russia, leveling trees over an area of 2,000 km2 (770 mi2) (Figure 1). Eyewitnesses described a ―fire ball, bright as the Sun‖ (Longo, 2007). The event produced seismic and pressure waves that were recorded all over the world and led to atmospheric phenomena (e.g. , bright nights, noctilucent clouds) observed over much of Eurasia. The released energy was later estimated to be equivalent to a 10 megaton (Mton) TNT explosion, about 1,000 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb dropped over Hiroshima...
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