Tunguska

[toong-goo-skuh, toon-goo-skuh]

noun

1. any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the Lower Tunguska, 2,000 miles (3,220 km) long; the Upper Tunguska or the lower course of the Angara, 1,151 miles (1,855 km) long; and the Stony Tunguska, about 975 miles (1,570 km) long.

Tunguska

/ tunˈɡuskə /

noun

1. any of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, all tributaries of the Yenisei: the Lower (Nizhnyaya) Tunguska 2690 km (1670 miles) long; the Stony (Podkamennaya) Tunguska 1550 km (960 miles) long; the Upper (Verkhnyaya) Tunguska which is the lower course of the Angara

Example Sentences

While small particles like those in the Taurid meteor shower enter the atmosphere all the time, larger bodies capable of producing events like the 2013 Chelyabinsk explosion or the 1908 Tunguska blast are much rarer.

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"The closest humans have come to seeing something like this is the 1908 Tunguska event, when a 50-meter asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies above Siberia."

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The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the Tunguska event in 1908 when a 50-metre asteroid exploded in the skies above Siberia.

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Another is the object that detonated above a region near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia in 1908, scorching and flattening trees across a remote area that was almost twice the size of Hong Kong.

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It was also a massive learning experience for scientists, the largest atmospheric impact since the Tunguska bolide in 1908.

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