The Tunguska Fireball -- 100 Year Anniversary: Summary Of Today's News Links And Some Ebooks


	The Tunguska Fireball -- 100 Year Anniversary: Summary Of Today's News Links And Some Ebooks

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6-30-2008 9:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d249609e-b441-49d7-9f96-8e501dbf1004/B3A9AAB5-0F4A-47E3-BCAB-2129CE07E146/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/06/tunguska-fireball-100-year-anniversary.html" href="http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/06/tunguska-fireball-100-year-anniversary.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bookyards.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/06/tunguska-fireball-100-year-anniversary.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bookyards.blogspot.com/img/A04737C6-2558-41D8-A781-F9198E988070" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/06/tunguska-fireball-100-year-anniversary.html"><DIV><SPAN>From Wikipedia:</SPAN></DIV><BR /><DIV>The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m.[1] (0:14 UT, 7:02 a.m. local solar time[2]) on June 30, 1908 (June 17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time).[2]</DIV><BR /><DIV><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event">Read more</A><SPAN> </SPAN>....</DIV><BR /><DIV><SPAN>My Comment: </SPAN>I could only find one book that discusses this event. It is .... The Tunguska Fireball by Surendra Verma. It is at Gigapedia (free registration required), and the <A href="http://www.linkbucks.com/link/f9b23735/11985"><SPAN>link to the book is here</SPAN>.</A></DIV><BR /><SPAN>Some other interesting books are:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://www.linkbucks.com/link/fa611632/11985">Catastrophic Events Caused by Cosmic Objects</A> by V. V. Adushkin -- Avaxhome<BR /><A href="http://www.linkbucks.com/link/ff43c96c/11985">Comets And Asteroids</A> -- The Lucent Library of Science and Technology<BR /><DIV><A href="http://www.linkbucks.com/link/fe743d58/11985">A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple (Archimedes)</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/06/tunguska-fireball-100-year-anniversary.html"><SPAN>Some of today's news articles commemorating the event:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/apocalypse-then-next-one-when/">Apocalypse Then. Next One, When?</A> -- Science, New York Times</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2008/06/tunguska-fireball-100-year-anniversary.html"><A href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0630">June 30, 1908: A Very Close Encounter of the Second Kind</A> -- Wired News</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B3A9AAB5-0F4A-47E3-BCAB-2129CE07E146/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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