Risk assessment of Tunguska-type airbursts

The Tunguska airburst, which devastated a taiga forest over an area greater than 2,000 km 2 in a remote region of Central Siberia in 1908, is a classic example of extraterrestrial encounter discussed in the asteroid/comet impact hazard and risk assessment literature (e.g. Longo 2007 Carusi et al. 20...

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Main Authors: Arnaud Mignan, Patricia Grossi, Robert Muir-Wood
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11069-010-9597-3