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    Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory The Tunguska event in Krasnoyarsk Kari‚ Russia has been debated by scientists since it occurred. The event occurred around 7:14 on the day of June 30‚ 1908. That morning an enormous explosion rocked Krasnoyarsk Kari. The destruction was spread for miles. Estimates report that over 80 million trees were flattened and the earthquake caused by it would have been a 5.0 on the Richter scale. Many scientists believe that the event

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    The content of the reading and the lecture is about one of the largest explosions in history - the explosion in Tunguska in 1908. The reading supports the idea that it was a massive methane gas explosion while the lecture argues that it was an asteroid strike which caused the explosion. According to the reading passage‚ the fact that no rocks or material from an asteroid have been found and nobody witnesses an asteroid streaking across the sky means that there is no evidence of an asteroid strike

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    Asteroid studies are important in the exploration of space‚ but do we have the funds for it? We do have the funds for asteroid studies‚ but we use them for other things like social security and Medicare. The asteroid study funds could also be put into finding new alternative resources if we don’t want to damage the earth more than we already have or to just use the things on other planets for fuel sources‚ metals that earth is low on‚ and new chemicals to better our scientist’s studies. The funds

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    our india suffring from many disaster but mast important disaster is natural disaster . natural disaster is the impact of the human causing the wasteage of natural resoures andusing it very widly range becaus of using natural resoures in bulk amount it harmes pur planet as well as our country .the goverment should take action toward those industries which use the natural resoures in wide range. ande give them punishment to them and save our planet from natural disaters. A natural disaster is the

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    Jessica Arroyo English 116 11 April 2012 Life is hard. There are two things we need to succeed in life. We need to understand that nature is a key player in life‚ and that it has a greater power over us than we do it. We cannot control nature‚ nor can we impact what it has in store for us. If nature‚ such as the weather‚ decides there’s going to be a storm this weekend‚ well the best we can do is prepare for it. If nature creates us in one mode‚ who are we to go against it and try to change our

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    Meteorites Meteorites are small extraterrestrial bodies that reach the Earth ’s surface. They are small asteroids‚ approximately boulder-sized or less. While still in space these bodies are called meteoroids. When they enter the Earth ’s atmosphere‚ but before reaching the surface‚ they are called meteors. Seventy nine percent of meteorites are chondrites. Chondrites are balls of mafic minerals with small grain size indicative of rapid cooling. In most chondrites small spherules‚ called chondrules

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    A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary

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    A ncient A tom Bombs Ancient Atom Bombs Fact‚ Fraud‚ and the Myth of Prehistoric Nuclear Warfare Contents I. The Myth of Ancient Atomic Warfare 1 II. The First Ancient Atomic Bomb Theories 4 III. The Tesla Death Ray 13 IV. Big Theories‚ No Evidence 16 V. What It All Means 20 Works Cited 24 ANCIENT ATOM BOMBS? ● 1 I. The Myth of Ancient Atomic Warfare I N FEBRUARY 2008‚ GLOBAL DIGNITARIES gathered to inaugurate the Svalbard Global

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    Description of the Event In a concurrence that still has NASA specialists shaking their heads‚ a small asteroid completely unrelated to 2012 DA14 struck Earth only hours before the publicized event. The impactor flew unexpectedly‚ literally from the direction of the sun where no telescope could see it‚ and took everyone by surprise as the meteor speckled across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains. The large fireball was observed on the morning of Feb. 15‚ 2013‚ in the skies near Chelyabinsk‚

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