Supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster

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In this supercomputer image Mark Boslough demonstrates hotpoints of the asteroid fire ball. Credit: Randy Montoya
In this supercomputer image, Mark Boslough demonstrates hotpoints of the asteroid fire ball. Credit: Randy Montoya

The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska, a century ago in Siberia, may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia supercomputer simulations suggest.


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