Hi Ron & All,
As far as I can tell, then, this should be conclusive proof that the
event WAS a meteorite - specifically, a "common" chondrite - rite?
Is this, then, "accepted" as an established fact by the scientific branch
of the meteoritics community?
Michael
on 7/23/02 8:37 AM, Ron Baalke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Tunguska, Siberia was the site of a blast with the explosive
>> power of 1000 atomic bombs that flattened 2100 square kilometres
>> of forest in 1908. Scientists have blamed an asteroid, but
>> remarkably they have found no crater, no evidence of meteorite
>> fragments and no significant chemical traces.
>
> Fragments of the Tunguska blast have been recovered. Dust
> particles were found embedded in tree sap, and analysis
> of the particles showed they were stony chondrites.
>
> Ron Baalke
>
> ______________________________________________
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
-- Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
--
Worth Seeing:
- Earth at night from satalite:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
- Earth - variety of choices:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
--
FREE COLLEGE MONEY
CLICK HERE to search
600,000 scholarships!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/jFYolB/TM
--
Michael Blood Meteorites, Didgeridoos & Insects in Amber for sale at:
http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/
______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
