[meteorite-list] Tunguska event

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jun 12 20:48:02 2006
Message-ID: <200606122225.PAA10671_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> Hi,
> ..As I am going to acquire a piece of a tree from the Tunguska site (Univ.
> of Bologna trip, 1991) - It seems to me that the present (and plausible)
> belief is that it was caused by a low altitude explosive breakup of a stony
> meteorite.
> Does anyone have any ideas if the meteorite was classifiable from the
> microscopic remnants in the trees, and also, any good definitive sites (even
> in Russian - I can deal with reading that!) that I could check out?
>

Yes, I read in a Sky & Telescope article some years ago that analysis of
the grains found in the tree sap showed it to be a common stony chondrite.

Ron Baalke
Received on Mon 12 Jun 2006 06:25:09 PM PDT