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unusual facts about Tunguska


Mirninsky District

A further government decree signed by Stalin in 1946 announced further exploration for diamonds, with expeditions mounted from Irkutsk into the region of the Tunguska.


Alex Krycek

The hunt leads Krycek and Mulder to Tunguska, where they are held captive until Krycek maneuvers his own release.

Area 51 novels

The reader is taken all over the globe, visiting Africa's Great Rift Valley, the top of Mount Everest, Tunguska, an ancient Chinese tomb, and even into space as the events of the series unfold, eventually leading up to what will bring about World War III.

Bill DeSmedt

In his debut novel, Singularity (2004), Bill deploys a lifelong layman's fascination with quantum physics and cosmology in the service of bringing believability to the long-disparaged hypothesis that the devastation of the Tunguska basin in 1908 was caused by a submicroscopic, primordial black hole.

Albert A. Jackson IV and Michael P. Ryan Jr. who first put forward the Tunguska-black hole hypothesis in 1973.

Near-Earth object

On August 13, 1930 the area near Curuçá River at latitude 5° S and longitude 71.5° W experienced a meteoric air burst, also known as the "Brazilian Tunguska event".

Nikolay Ivanovich Fedorov

In 1939, he participated as an artist in the last Leonid Kulik’s expedition for the search of Tunguska "meteorite" (it is still a controversy what exactly caused the event).

Tetracosane

n-Tetracosane is found in mineral called evenkite in the Evenki Region on Lower Tunguska River in Siberia and the Bucnik quarry near Konma in eastern Moravia, in former Czechoslovakia.

The Astronauts

The record contains details about the travel of the spaceship from Venus (which crashed in Tunguska) and the data ends with an ominous message: "After two rotations the Earth will be radiated. When the radiation intensity drops to half, the Great Movement will commence."


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