Tunguska event

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything

by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  · 16 Oct 2017  · 398pp  · 105,032 words

Jong-un isn’t that nuts” is pretty cold comfort. The largest encounter between Earth and an extraterrestrial object in recorded history was the 1908 “Tunguska event,” when a huge object (we don’t know if it was a comet made mostly of ice, or an asteroid made mostly of rock) exploded

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Cosmos

by Carl Sagan  · 1 Jan 1980  · 404pp  · 131,034 words

river. After this came a single sharp bang so loud that one of the workmen … fell into the water. This remarkable occurrence is called the Tunguska Event. Some scientists have suggested that it was caused by a piece of hurtling antimatter, annihilated on contact with the ordinary matter of the Earth, disappearing

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has been proposed, some of them more or less seriously. Not one of them is strongly supported by the evidence. The key point of the Tunguska Event is that there was a tremendous explosion, a great shock wave, an enormous forest fire, and yet there is no impact crater at the site

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from grains of dust to irregular blocks the size of Nicaragua or Bhutan. And sometimes, by accident, there is a planet in the way. The Tunguska Event was probably caused by an icy cometary fragment about a hundred meters across—the size of a football field—weighing a million tons, moving at

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same day of every year. June 30, 1908 was the day of the Beta Taurid meteor shower, connected with the orbit of Comet Encke. The Tunguska Event seems to have been caused by a chunk of Comet Encke, a piece substantially larger than the tiny fragments that cause those glittering, harmless meteor

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indirect. The odds, as I have said, are against such an event happening in historical times. But the evidence is at least suggestive. As the Tunguska Event and Meteor Crater, Arizona, also remind us, not all impact catastrophes occurred in the early history of the solar system. But the fact that only

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic  · 2 Jul 2008

Object Science Definition Team. NASA, http: f fneo. jpl.nasa.govfneo fneoreport030825 . pdf Stuart, J .S. and Binzel, R.P. (2004). NEO impact risk overrated? Tunguska events once every 2000-3000 years ? Icarus, 1 70, 295- 3 1 1 . Toon, O . B . et a!. (1990) . Environmental perturbations caused b y asteroid impacts

The Norm Chronicles

by Michael Blastland  · 14 Oct 2013

G. Calculating Catastrophe (London, Imperial College Press, 2011). 5. Risk Management Solutions. Comet and Asteroid Risk: An Analysis of the 1908 Tunguska Event. 2009. Available from: www.rms.com/publications/1908_tunguska_event.pdf. 6. National Research Council. Defending Planet Earth:Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies (Washington, D.C.: The National

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton  · 19 Sep 2016  · 1,048pp  · 187,324 words

. Petersburg. Get a bus or trolleybus to Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya. 59.941568 30.304588 Completed in 1654, the Gottorb Globe was the world’s first planetarium. Tunguska Event Epicenter VANAVARA, KRASNOYARSK KRAI On June 30, 1908, at 7:14 a.m., a powerful explosion shattered windows, knocked people off their feet, and leveled

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basin. Initial speculation was that a meteorite had hit Earth, but subsequent investigations found no crater in the area. Naturally, the mysterious nature of the Tunguska Event has given rise to a wealth of conspiracy theories. Among the more far-fetched culprits: a tiny black hole passing through the Earth; a UFO

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the largest impact event in recent history. Split, mangled, and felled trees are all still visible around the Tunguska site. The closest village to the Tunguska Event epicenter is the town of Vanavara, located about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of the epicenter. 60.902539 101.904508 Kola Superdeep Borehole MURMANSK, MURMANSK

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Warnings

by Richard A. Clarke  · 10 Apr 2017  · 428pp  · 121,717 words

Helsinki or Oslo. Even in 1908, that would have killed hundreds of thousands of people. The message of Morrison’s book was that the 1908 Tunguska event was not as anomalous as we would like to think, and a strike of equal or greater magnitude could happen again. Morrison, who was born

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The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!

by Joseph N. Pelton  · 5 Nov 2016  · 321pp  · 89,109 words

. To get an idea of what size of asteroid represents a major city-killing event one only has to look at the evidence from the Tunguska event of June 30, 1904. This space object, either an asteroid or a comet, traveling at 54,000 km/h (33,500 mph) exploded some 8

Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

by Natalie Starkey  · 8 Mar 2018  · 284pp  · 89,477 words

we can work together now to do something to prevent it happening. Hence, Asteroid Day – the date of which marks the anniversary of the Siberian Tunguska event – is designed to get us thinking carefully about what our global plans will be if we discover that an object is heading straight for us

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same effects on the Earth’s surface as would a massive earthquake. If we think back to Chapter 3, where we introduced the powerful Siberian Tunguska event, this was an air blast caused by an incoming meteor that was powerful enough to flatten dense forests across a 2,000km2 (770sq miles) swathe

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

by Daniel Gardner  · 23 Jun 2009  · 542pp  · 132,010 words

unlikely they are to hurt us. The Example Rule doesn’t help, either. The only really massive asteroid impact in the modern era was the Tunguska event, which happened a century ago in a place so remote only a handful of people saw it. There have been media reports of “near misses

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also know of the theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, but that’s no more real and vivid in our memories than the Tunguska event, and so the Example Rule would steer Gut to conclude that the risk is tinier than it actually is. There is simply nothing about asteroids

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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

by Donnie Eichar  · 20 Oct 2014  · 232pp  · 68,570 words

square miles of forest in central Siberia, with a blast several hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Unlike the remote Tunguska event, the meteor on February 15 struck the atmosphere above Chelyabinsk, a city of more than one million people. The meteor broke apart between 12 and

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

by Martin J. Rees  · 14 Oct 2018  · 193pp  · 51,445 words

Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation Is Reshaping Our WorldÑFor the Better

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Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration

by Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David  · 1 Apr 2013  · 183pp  · 51,514 words

The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet

by Arthur Turrell  · 2 Aug 2021  · 297pp  · 84,447 words

Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson  · 19 May 2015  · 945pp  · 292,893 words

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World

by Michal Zalewski  · 11 Jan 2022  · 337pp  · 96,666 words