Tunguska Impact Mystery Solved-- it was a Meteorite


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Message 1385181 - Posted: 27 Jun 2013, 19:10:43 UTC
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An international team of scientists has found meteoric grains in a peat deposit from the time of the Tunguska impact, 1908. This resolves the uncertainty about what sort of object caused the impact. http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/06/mystery-solved-meteorite-caused-tunguska-devastation
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Message 1385241 - Posted: 27 Jun 2013, 22:50:52 UTC

It sure took long enough ;)
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