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The Tunguska fireball : solving one of the great mysteries of the 20th century / Surendra Verma.

Title
The Tunguska fireball : solving one of the great mysteries of the 20th century / Surendra Verma.
Author
Verma, Surendra, 1942-
Publication
Thriplow, UK : Icon, c2005.

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x, 275 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
At 7.14 a.m on 30 June 1908 a huge fireball exploded in the Siberian sky. A thousand times the force of the hiroshima bomb, it flattened an area of remote Tunguska forest bigger that Greater London, forming a mushroom cloud that almost reached into space. What was it? A century on, and no one knows for sure. Suspects range from comets or mini black holes into the realms of science fiction and conspiracy, a laser beam fired by extra-terrestrials or an early nuclear experiment. This is an exhilarating ride around one of science's gretest mysteries.
Subject
  • Ball lightning > Tunguska Basin
  • Comets > Collisions with Earth > Tunguska Basin
  • Nuclear explosions > Tunguska Basin
  • Tunguska meteorite
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-265) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
1840466200 (hbk.)
OCLC
57006498
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library