Georadar and Hydrogen Studies of the Tunguska Meteorite Craters

V. A. Alekseev, V. V. Kopeikin, N. G. Alekseeva, L. Pelekhan

Protecting the Earth against Collisions with Asteroids and Comet Nuclei, In: A. M. Finkelstein, W. F. Huebner, V. A. Shor (Eds) Proceedings of the International Conference “Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009”, StP: Nauka, 233–236 (2010)

Keywords: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), georadar and hydrogen studies, Tunguska meteorite craters, the distribution of the craters between the North and South bogs, the crater arrangement of Sikhote Alin meteorite shower, Tunguska meteorite fragments, abundant formation of the craters of impact nature

Abstract

Tunguska meteorite craters were studied during July 722, 2009. The distribution of the craters over the 2.5 0.3 km area between the North and South bogs are very similar to the crater arrangement of Sikhote Alin meteorite shower, which suggests that the Tunguska meteorite, during its explosion, was divided into fragments. Our studies support the idea by L. A. Kulik [1, 2] on abundant formation of the craters of impact nature