A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea.
Bunch TE, LeCompte MA, Adedeji AV, Wittke JH, Burleigh TD, Hermes RE, Mooney C, Batchelor D, Wolbach WS, Kathan J, Kletetschka G, Patterson MCL, Swindel EC, Witwer T, Howard GA, Mitra S, Moore CR, Langworthy K, Kennett JP, West A, Silvia PJ.
Bunch TE, et al.
Sci Rep. 2021 Sep 20;11(1):18632. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3.
Sci Rep. 2021.
PMID: 34545151
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The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000 more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. ...Heating experiments indicate temperatures exceeded 2000 C. Amid city-side devastation, the airbur …
The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000 more …