[meteorite-list] Another Scientific Expedition Off To Tunguska Site

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:43:32 2004
Message-ID: <200107152100.OAA20366_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2001/07/15/10167.html

ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TUNGUSKA METEORITE FALL SITE
pravda.ru
July 15, 2001

One more scientific expedition has set off from Krasnoyarsk in
Eastern Siberia to the place where in its time the Tunguska meteorite
fell. A celestial body of tremendous mass and unknown origin, whose
collision with the earth happened near the Evenk village of Vanavara on
June 30, 1908, is to this day one of the main mysteries of the 20th
century. Now the expedition, made up of mostly scientists from Novosibirsk
and Tomsk, is going to study a new portion of the Tunguska virgin forest
land, taiga. This land, located nearly 20-25 kilometers away from the place
seen over many years as the epicenter, has never been seriously examined ever
since. The expedition will check the version whether or not the Tunguska
meteorite was a gigantic fragment of an ice comet.
Received on Sun 15 Jul 2001 05:00:18 PM PDT