A scientific paper that attracted vast media attention with claims of an airburst destroying the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam, and inspiring biblical stories, has been withdrawn over serious ...

This was the Tunguska event — an airburst from an object that may have been up to 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter. The collision unleashed several megatons of energy, which is roughly the ...

This was the Tunguska event – an airburst from an object that may have been up to 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter. The collision unleashed several megatons of energy, which is roughly the ...

The Tunguska event can be explained without resorting ... across exploded in an airburst 10 to 14 kilometers (6 to 9 miles) above the ground.

and impact of the air blast at Tunguska. "Therefore, the claims that an airburst event destroyed the Middle Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hammam appear to not be sufficiently supported by the data in ...

"We know from modelling of the Tunguska event that the angle of entry must have been ... Dr Collins added that if pieces of the space rock had survived the airburst, they would have been too small and ...

much larger than the Tunguska object, and fragmented into thousands of pieces. The sediment layer associated with the airburst stretches across much of the northern hemisphere, but can also be ...

This was the Tunguska event—an airburst from an object that may have been up to 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter. The collision unleashed several megatons of energy, which is roughly the ...

The shockwave from the 1908 Tunguska event knocked down 2,150 square ... The sediment layer associated with the airburst stretches across much of the northern hemisphere, but can also be found ...

An illustration of an asteroid exploding in an airburst. This is the type of impact that caused the 1908 Tunguska event. Image source: Jakub / Adobe Despite the concerning statistics, experts ...