[meteorite-list] Possible large airburst events of the 1930s in South America

From: Philip R. Burns <pib_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:45 2004
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020112225423.00a29840_at_pibburns.com>

At 11:25 PM 1/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >In 1908, 2000 square kilometers of forest
> >were flattened when an object the size
> >of an office block came out of the blue
> >and exploded over the remote Tunguska
> >River area of Siberia. This sort of event
> >can be expected every few decades.
> >Indeed, a similar explosion is believed
> >to have taken place in the South American
> >jungle in the 1930s.
>
>I have never heard of this 1930s event in South America. Can anyone
>shed any light on this?

See Duncan Steel's article at

         http://www.xtec.es/recursos/astronom/craters/amazonase.htm

for an introduction to the 1930 event, along with some information about
another possible airburst event in British Guyana in 1935.


-- Philip R. "Pib" Burns
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Received on Sat 12 Jan 2002 11:58:18 PM PST