[meteorite-list] Tunguska event

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confirm, University of Bologna have found microscopic
grains into the resin of the tree's.

Matteo

--- Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> ha
scritto: 

> > 
> > 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
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