[meteorite-list] Tunguska event

[Ron Baalke]

> 
> Hi,
> ..As  I am going to acquire a piece of a tree from the Tunguska site (Univ.
> of Bologna trip, 1991) - It seems to me that the present (and plausible)
> belief is that it was caused by a low altitude explosive breakup of a stony
> meteorite.
> Does anyone have any ideas if the meteorite was classifiable from the
> microscopic remnants in the trees, and also, any good definitive sites (even
> in Russian - I can deal with reading that!) that I could check out?
> 

Yes, I read in a Sky & Telescope article some years ago that analysis of 
the grains found in the tree sap showed it to be a common stony chondrite.

Ron Baalke