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Seminarsko predavanje
Centra za uporabno matematiko in teoreticno fiziko

THE 1908 TUNGUSKA CATASTROPHE : A KIMBERLITE ?

Profesor Dr. Wolfgang Kundt
Institut für Astrophysik, Universität Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Abstract: In the early morning of 30 June 1908, hell broke loose near the Stony Tunguska river in Siberia, and the majority of trees were felled in an area of more than $2000 km^2$, in an approximately radial pattern. The suspected cause has been an impacting meteorite, either stony or icy, and has entered published diagrams as a milestone of impact statistics. But no trace of an impacted body has ever been found. All the morphological and chemical evidence conforms with outgassings or earthquakes. The `telegraph poles' near the epicenter remind of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, and the four `bright nights' are reminiscent of the 1883 Krakatao eruption. In fact, more than a dozen reasons will be presented that Tunguska was a recent kimberlite, i.e. a volcanic event.

Seminarsko predavanje bo v petek 23. marca 2001 ob 15:15 uri v seminarski sobi CAMTP, Krekova 2, pritlicje. Vljudno vabljeni vsi zainteresirani, tudi študentje.

Prof.Dr. Marko Robnik
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