Fw: [meteorite-list] 1930s Tunguska-Like Event?

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Feb 7 11:12:58 2006
Message-ID: <002f01c62c01$354658f0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Here is an email from Fed 4th that I sent to Walter Branch, again, no
answer.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
To: "Walter Branch" <branchw_at_bellsouth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 1930s Tunguska-Like Event?


> You never answered me back, do you want the nwa 869 pieces?
> mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter Branch" <branchw_at_bellsouth.net>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 5:41 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] 1930s Tunguska-Like Event?
>
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I have made up my mind that I am attending Tucson next year. I am more
>> than a little jealous, reading all these wonderful reports and seeing the
>> photos.
>>
>> Relevant to my subject line, I have just settled down with Roy Gallent's
>> book, "Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters." In
>> the forward, the writer (Nickolai V. Vasiliev) states. "In the 1930s a
>> similar event [to the Tunguska blast] occurred in the upper flows of the
>> Amazon River. Again, due to it's remoteness the event is known only to a
>> small circle of specialists."
>>
>> I admit I have not read the rest of the book but does anyone know
>> anything about this supposed event? Is anyone here a member of the
>> circle of specialists?
>>
>> -Walter Branch
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Received on Tue 07 Feb 2006 11:11:48 AM PST