[meteorite-list] Re: Ghostly Asteroids Clue To Missing Matter

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:09 2004
Message-ID: <200207231537.IAA02128_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>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
Received on Tue 23 Jul 2002 11:37:02 AM PDT