[meteorite-list] Tunguska event

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jun 13 12:22:51 2006
Message-ID: <20060613044004.62871.qmail_at_web26210.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

confirm, University of Bologna have found microscopic
grains into the resin of the tree's.

Matteo

--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> ha
scritto:

> >
> > 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
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