2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.01.001
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Tunguska eyewitness accounts, injuries, and casualties

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“…The circumstances and condition of the human bones and fragments suggest that at the moment of death, these individuals were going about normal activities inside the palace, on the upper ring road, and/or on the rampart above the road, where they were struck by a high-temperature thermal pulse, followed by a hyper-velocity blast wave from a catastrophic cosmic airburst. This event was most likely larger than the airburst at Tunguska, Siberia in 1908, where ~ 500 reindeer and several herders within the blast radius suffered severe burns and were killed, but suffered no disarticulation 142 .…”
Section: Human Bones In the Destruction Layermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The circumstances and condition of the human bones and fragments suggest that at the moment of death, these individuals were going about normal activities inside the palace, on the upper ring road, and/or on the rampart above the road, where they were struck by a high-temperature thermal pulse, followed by a hyper-velocity blast wave from a catastrophic cosmic airburst. This event was most likely larger than the airburst at Tunguska, Siberia in 1908, where ~ 500 reindeer and several herders within the blast radius suffered severe burns and were killed, but suffered no disarticulation 142 .…”
Section: Human Bones In the Destruction Layermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Even though the Tunguska area was sparsely inhabited, the blast killed ~ 3 of the ~ 30 people that were within or near the zone of fallen trees. Some of the injured survivors remained unconscious for hours to days 142 . Nearly everyone experienced severe burns within an eight-km radius of ground zero across an area covering ~ 200 km 2 .…”
Section: Analogous Destruction Eventsmentioning
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“…When the timeline moves closer to the present, on the morning of June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion of around 12 megaton (of TNT) [74] (approximately 800 Hiroshima Abombs) occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. An estimated 80 million trees over a forest area of 2,150 km 2 were flattened [75] with three people possibly dead in the event reported by witnesses [74].…”
Section: Space Threats and Planetary Defensementioning
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“…When the timeline moves closer to the present, on the morning of June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion of around 12 megaton (of TNT) [74] (approximately 800 Hiroshima Abombs) occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. An estimated 80 million trees over a forest area of 2,150 km 2 were flattened [75] with three people possibly dead in the event reported by witnesses [74]. The atmospheric explosion of a stony meteoroid with an estimated dimension of 50-60 meters [76] happened at an altitude of around 5 to 10 kilometers after entering Earth's atmosphere with a high speed of about 27 km/s [74] [77].…”
Section: Space Threats and Planetary Defensementioning
confidence: 99%