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On the possibility of through passage of asteroid bodies across the Earth's atmosphere

Daniil E. Khrennikov, Andrei K. Titov, Alexander E. Ershov et al., 2020. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493(1), 1344–1351.

Models 50–200 m iron, stone and ice bodies on grazing trajectories down to 10–15 km altitude and argues that the Tunguska body was an iron asteroid that passed through the atmosphere and left.

MYS0D4EC45R6CFX · mystery · click to copyM1908 Tunguska eventArticledoi: 10.1093/mnras/staa329Checked against the original0

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The grazing iron-body reading.

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Khrennikov, D. E., Titov, A. K., Ershov, A. E., Pariev, V. I., & Karpov, S. V. (2020). On the possibility of through passage of asteroid bodies across the Earth's atmosphere. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493(1), 1344–1351. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa329
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