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Re: Killer Meteorites (animal deaths at Tunguska)

Hi,

regarding the consequences of the Tunguska-event, Sky and Telescope had an
interesting diagram in its June 1994 edition, page 41. There you can see a
map of the devasted terrain with the positions of Evenk-tents (the
Evenk-people were formerly called Tungus) and eyewitnesses with some of
their reports. According to that, whole herds of rendeers were incinerated.


One old man died of shock, another old man flew for 12 meters, broke his
arm (so that the bone was sticking out) and died later. Some people were
knocked unconscious; one said for two days.

Best wishes, Christian 



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Christian Pinter, Ph.D.   Journalist
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> Von: Piper R.W. Hollier 
> An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: Killer Meteorites (animal deaths at Tunguska)
> Datum: Montag, 04. Mai 1998 21:02
> 
> At 14:05 4-05-98 EDT, you wrote:
> 
> >I believe there were some reindeer and dogs killed in the Tunguska event
> also?
> >George Zay
> 
> O. Richard Norton's book "Rocks from Space" (2nd edition just out) has a
> lengthy (pp. 89-100) discussion of the Tunguska event and the subsequent
> investigations of the site.
> 
> Eyewitnesses reported at least three people being knocked unconscious by
> the blast, and an unspecified number of reindeer and dogs killed. Some
> excerpts:
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> S.B. Semenov reported:
> 
> "...there was a bang in the sky, and a mighty crash was heard. I was
thrown
> three sagenes [about 21 feet] away from the porch and for a moment I lost
> consciousness."
> 
> The closest eyewitnesses were the Evenki people, inhabitants of the
> northern part of the Krasnoyarsk district. They were camped near the
mouth
> of the Dilyushma River, several miles north of the Tunguska River and
> Vanovara trading post. Akulina Potapovich told this story.
> 
> "Early in the morning when everyone was asleep in the tent it was blown
up
> into the air, together with the occupants. When they fell back to Earth,
> the whole family suffered slight bruises but Akulina and Ivan actually
lost
> consciousness. When they regained consciousness they heard a great deal
of
> noise and saw the forest blazing around them and much of it devastated."
> 
> The Evenki nearest the explosion point told how the taiga (old growth
> forest of pine, cedar, and deciduous trees) was flattened and burned and
> some of their reindeer and dogs were killed by the explosion.
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> I ordered the Norton book last month from Amazon; it is a great read,
very
> instructive without getting too technical, and richly illustrated.
> 
> (And no, I don't have any relationship, personal or commercial, with the
> author, publisher, or distributor...)
> 
> Piper Hollier