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Tunguska Basin
Tunguska Basin c.400,000 sq mi (1,036,000 sq km), Krasnoyarsk Territory and Sakha Republic, E central Siberian Russia, between the Yenisei and Lena rivers. It has a huge untapped coal reserve. The main settlements there are Norilsk, Igarka, and Yeniseisk (all in Krasnoyarsk Territory); the basin is crossed by the Tunguska rivers. On June 30, 1908, a section of the basin near the Stony Tunguska River was the scene of the Tunguska Event, a huge explosion that flattened hundreds of square miles of forest. It may have resulted from the catastrophic breakup of a stony asteroid about 100 ft (30 m) in diameter 5 mi (8 km) above the earth's surface.
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Tunguska: the explosion of a stony asteroid. (atmospheric explosion near Tunguska River in Siberia)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/9/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...over an area 60 kilometers wide near the Tunguska River. But the blast left no crater...in which energy was deposited at the Tunguska site, many investigators have favored...in the atmosphere to account for the Tunguska phenomena. The researchers calculate...
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Tunguska event still a mystery.(Conference news)
News Wire article from: UzReport; 6/27/2008; 700+ words
; ...practical conference The Centenary of the Tunguska Event 26-28 June, Yury Zaitsev, an...have been debating the nature of the Tunguska event, which happened 39 years earlier...Unlike the Sikhote-Alin meteorite, the Tunguska meteorite exploded in mid-air, leaving...
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Tunguska Blast.(from CyberWize.com)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Nutraceuticals World; 6/1/2006; 665 words
; ...com, Sarasota, FL, has launched Tunguska Blast, a supplement formulated entirely...herbs and other plants harvested in the Tunguska River Valley in Siberia, Russia. Not...blind scientific studies--but the "Tunguska Effect" refers to a synergy of the combined...
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A century later, scientists still study Tunguska: asteroid or comet blamed for Siberian blast of 1908.(STORY ONE)
Magazine article from: Science News; 6/21/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Effects of the event--often called the Tunguska blast, after a major river running through...scientists are still debating the cause of the Tunguska blast. Through the years, Longo notes...The damage in Siberia suggests that the Tunguska detonation happened at an altitude of...
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The Tunguska Project is a blast!
Magazine article from: Saskatchewan Sage; 8/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Tunguska Project is a blast! The gigantic Tunguska blast of 1908 should have made headlines around the globe...record straight with a new stage production called The Tunguska Project. The play is based on 33 years of conflicting...
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TUNGUSKA-M1.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Interavia Business & Technology; 5/1/2000; 700+ words
; The TUNGUSKA air defence gun-missile system, designed...number of upgrades. The latest version, Tunguska-M1, offered by KBP, features performance...outweigh those of its predecessors. The Tunguska-M 1 system includes: - six 2 S6M 1...
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UFO crashed into Tunguska meteor to save Earth, says Russian expert.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 5/28/2009; 511 words
; ...UFO deliberately crashed itself into Tunguska meteor to save Earth from destruction...ago. Dr Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists...resulted in what is presently known as Tunguska event - a massive blast estimated at...
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Secret Files: Tunguska.(adventure game)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Computer Act!ve; 9/28/2006; ; 670 words
; ...Byline: Eddie Henderson Secret Files: Tunguska Point-and-click adventures seem to...Mr Cynical, for while Secret Files: Tunguska is no masterpiece, its X-Files-esque...addictive game. In case you're unaware of Tunguska, it's the actual location where in...
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The KBP Shipunov research center (Tula, Russia) and the Izhevski Electromechanical Plant Kupol (Izhevsk, Russia). (Missile Editor).(Modernized Tunguska M1 system has successfully completed state trials)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Journal of Electronic Defense; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Electromechanical Plant Kupol (Izhevsk, Russia) announced that a modernized Tunguska M1 system has successfully completed state trials, The Tunguska M1 is a modernized version of 2K22 Tunguska system. The main improvements include: * Installation of a digital...
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Scorched earth mystery:; Tunguska Meteor
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 6/29/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...THE TUNGUSKA "event", as it came to be called...tracked down to the region of the Stony Tunguska River, 1100km northwest of Lake Baikal...and the aerial damage to the trees at Tunguska, plus the discovery of traces of radiation...
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Tunguska Basin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tunguska Basin c.400,000 sq mi (1,036,000 sq km...Krasnoyarsk Territory); the basin is crossed by the Tunguska rivers. On June 30, 1908, a section of the basin near the Stony Tunguska River was the scene of the Tunguska Event, a...
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Tunguska event
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Tunguska event An explosion above the Podkamennaya Tunguska (Stony Tunguska) River region of central Siberia at about 7.30 a.m. local time on 1908June30, caused by a large stony meteorite or cometary fragment. A fireball as bright as the...
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Tunguska
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tunguska , name of three eastern tributaries of the Yenisei River...across the swampy forests of E central Siberia, draining the Tunguska Basin . Furthest north is the Lower Tunguska, Rus. Nizhnyaya Tunguska , c.1,590 mi (2,600 km...
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Impacts
Book article from: Space Sciences
...bombs. The last one exploded over the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908, toppling...velocity of the impacting bodies. A Tunguska-like event, which happens somewhere...area is a more likely target, such as Tunguska, where only one or two people may have...
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Angara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Yenisei River near Strelka. Below its junction with the Ilim River the Angara is known also as the Upper Tunguska (Rus. Verkhnyaya Tunguska ). The Angara is navigable between Irkutsk and Bratsk; below Bratsk there are many rapids. At Bratsk...
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