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A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea

We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonate...

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Autores principales: Bunch, Ted E., LeCompte, Malcolm A., Adedeji, A. Victor, Wittke, James H., Burleigh, T. David, Hermes, Robert E., Mooney, Charles, Batchelor, Dale, Wolbach, Wendy S., Kathan, Joel, Kletetschka, Gunther, Patterson, Mark C. L., Swindel, Edward C., Witwer, Timothy, Howard, George A., Mitra, Siddhartha, Moore, Christopher R., Langworthy, Kurt, Kennett, James P., West, Allen, Silvia, Phillip J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8452666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34545151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97778-3