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Significant Details for the Big Picture

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The Tunguska Mystery

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In the last chapters we considered three large keys to unlock the Tunguska mystery – the “mechanical,” “thermal,” and “magnetic.” And now we must look at five smaller keys discovered in the course of Tunguska investigations.

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Rubtsov, V. (2009). Significant Details for the Big Picture. In: The Tunguska Mystery. Astronomers' Universe. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76574-7_8

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