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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by javajosh on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:47AM (#28604531)
Did even Tunguska have a geological impact? And also, since 75% of the Earth is covered in water, it stands to reason that 75% of bolides exploded over an ocean, with literally no impact we could meaningfully measure.

My point is that human cities are "bolide sensors" and unevenly distributed in time and space, so the "measurements" are necessarily fewer than what occurs in nature.

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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by staplung on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @10:31AM (#28605355)
Best definition of a city ever: “bolide sensor”. Love it
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by heavyset_go on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @06:26PM (#28610800)
Yes, there is geological evidence that the Tunguska event was a bolide explosion.
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by jacquesm on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @10:37AM (#28605432)
trees flattened in a radial pattern might show up in the geological record somehow.
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by gota on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:34PM (#28606794)
Unlikely after several years, let alone several thousands, right?
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by bell-cot on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#28609370)
It would require coordinated excavation over how many square miles, to spot the radial pattern? (Assuming, as gota points out, that the fallen trees were somehow preserved.)

Then there's bolides over desert, savanna, tundra, ice sheets, etc.

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