Atmospheric Discharge in the Tunguska Disaster

O. G. Gladysheva

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, 184–188 (2010)

Ключевые слова: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), explosion of the Tunguska cosmic body, destruction mechanism, epicenter, radiant energy release, emission during the Tunguska disaster, an atmospheric discharge at altitudes of 1090 km above the Earth's surface

Аннотация

Based on the fact that an explosion of the Tinguska cosmic body, which caused trees to fall over a wide area, and radiant energy release during the Tunguska disaster were separated in space and in time, it is proposed that these events are interrelated but of different origin. We propose that the emission during the Tunguska disaster was caused by an atmospheric discharge at altitudes of 10-90 km above the Earth's surface. We propose these separate but interrelated events as an explanation for the Tunguska cosmic body destruction mechanism over the epicenter