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THE suggestion of Jackson and Ryan1 that a “mini” black hole was responsible for the Tungus Event of 1908 is both imaginative and intriguing. Unfortunately, this miniature, hypothetical object cannot account for all the important phenomena known to accompany the event. On the same night of the Tunguska Fall, and for several subsequent nights, the Tungus and adjacent regions experienced abnormally bright skies2. Inhabitants of the entire Northern Hemisphere recorded anomalous extinction of atmospheric light subsequent to the fall2.
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WICK, G., ISAACS, J. Tungus Event Revisited. Nature 247, 139–140 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247139b0
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