[meteorite-list] Re: Tunguska Event

From: herbert.raab_at_ris.at <herbert.raab_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:48:14 2004
Message-ID: <011030171621310300_at_risc01>

Hello List!

I just came across this article, which is of some
significance regarding the recent discussion if the
Tunguska object might have been a fregment of comet
2P/Encke:

P.Farinella et al: "Probable asteroidal origin of
the Tunguska Cosmic Body"
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 377, pp. 1081-1097
(published on 21. Oct. 2001)

According to this article, the Tunguska object
probably had an asteroidal orbit (83%) rather than
a cometary orbit (17%).

The abstract is availabe online via ADS:
<http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001A%26A...377.1081F&db_key=AST&high=3bdece105619059>
(Make sure to squeeze the URL in one line...)

  Greetings,
   Herbert Raab
Received on Tue 30 Oct 2001 11:16:19 AM PST