Ukrainian scholars excelled in the study of the Tunguska meteorite - Asian Reporter

MOSCOW, June 12 / Asian Reporter /. Ukrainian and American geologists have analyzed the mineral and chemical composition of the grains, the Soviet scientists found near the site of the Tunguska meteorite, and came to the conclusion that they belonged to a class of meteorite carbonaceous chondrites, not a comet, as some researchers, reports Nature News.

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Andrei Ol’khovatov, in turn, believes that it is necessary to pay attention to a few points. “First, in 1908, was more than a century. Cosmic matter falls to the ground every day. Therefore need accurate referencing the presence of particles is studied by 1908. But the most important thing is that so far there is no evidence at all that the Ukrainian scientists studied particles have a cosmic origin “.

” In my memory, it can not even count what the bill find the Tunguska meteorite. now lead their arguments Ukrainian scientists, “- says the expert doubts.

Testimonies read as that it was a giant ball of fire, a split heaven, and then exploded, destroying everything around. However, this explosion is called a meteorite, although direct evidence of the collision of a celestial body with the Earth’s surface has not yet been.

power of the Tunguska explosion equivalent to 40-50 megatons of TNT. For comparison, a blast from the Chelyabinsk meteorite is estimated at only 460 kilotons.

recently released information about finding fragments of the Tunguska meteorite another geologist at the State Mineralogical Museum Vernadsky Sciences Andrei Zlobin. His research, which has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, the scientist described in a preprint posted on the archive at Cornell University. Most experts Zlobina the statements were skeptical.

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