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Computation of a possible Tunguska's strewn field

Albino Carbognani, Mario Di Martino, Giovanna Stirpe, 2024. Icarus 408, 115845.

Models ablation, pancake flattening, airburst and dark flight to ask whether stony fragments could have reached the ground, calibrated on the 2013 Chelyabinsk fall. Its introduction and Section 4 summarise the event parameters from the literature: 30 June 1908 at 00:14:28 UT, a 50–80 m body, burst about 8.5 km up, energy 10–40 Mt (most probably about 15 Mt), 2,150 ± 50 km² of forest flattened, epicentre 60.886° N 101.894° E from the tree-fall data, trajectory azimuth about 110° ± 10°. Finds a possible strewn field about 11 km north-west of the epicentre over about 140 km², with Lake Cheko about 3.5 km outside it.

MYS0D4EC45R6CFX · mystery · click to copyM1908 Tunguska eventArticledoi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115845Checked against the original0

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The project's reference for the event parameters and for the buried-fragments reading.

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Carbognani, A., Di Martino, M., & Stirpe, G. (2024). Computation of a possible Tunguska's strewn field. Icarus 408, 115845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115845
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