01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... the term “asteroid” is defined by the object's location more than by anything else. And what about the Tunguska event? The Tunguska event was a large explosion that is generally attributed to a mid-air disruption of a superbolide. Although no impact...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... event this year that also coincides with the infamous Tunguska asteroid which flattened an area of forest the size of ... chunk of rock was up to 3.6 times the size of the Tunguska asteroid and three to six times as big as the one that exploded...
November 2019
UAE meteor and debris monitoring network
... century, thousands of meteorites have left significant impacts in different parts of the world, such as the Chelyabinsk and Tunguska craters in Russia. Consequently, a need for monitoring the sky has arisen. UAEMMN Monitoring the sky for...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... even a small state. Examples of these are the Arizona and Tunguska meteorites. In the state of Arizona in the USA lies the ... metres in size and weighed around 300,000 tons. The Tunguska meteorite exploded over the Siberian taiga on 30 June 1908. The...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
..., or even that of small countries. The Arizona and Tunguska meteorites are examples of such events. The Barringer crater, ...weighing about 300 thousand tonnes. Energy output from the Tunguska meteorite explosion over the Siberian taiga on 30 June 1908...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... Yucatan. Within the past 100 years, the Earth has seen a meteorite explode in the air over Tunguska in Siberia, devastating a large area in the tundra, as well as many much smaller meteorites, such as the Chelyabinsk meteorite...
