Victor Zhuravlyov, Felix Zigel
TUNGUSKA MARVEL
CONTENTS
Book one: VISIT FROM THE SKY
Introduction: How did it all begin?
PART I THE PATH OF KULIK
| 1. No smoke without fire. Republic needs meteorites. Unusual fall. Eyewitness story. Evenkia witnesses. 2. The first expedition. To "damned place". Terra incognita. The first discovery. 3. Where is the meteorite? Into centre of catastrophe. Near volcano crater. Expedition on saving. |
4. The third expedition. Suslov's crater. Failures. 5. From bird's eye. Strange situation. Air survey. 6. The last route. South swamp. Under Mars sign. |
PART II EXPLOSION ABOVE THE TAIGA
| 1. Generating of mad idea. Explosion in air. Visit from the space. 2. Spirit goes out from the bottle. Play in planetarium. Guest from cosmos. The first attack of fantasist. 3. Scientists arguments. Fantasists or dreamers? Hypothesis - what is it? Facts and paradigm. |
4. Calm before storm. Krinov's monograph. Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Florensky's exploration. 5. Florensky's expedition. Space and Tunguska. And yet - in air. |
PART III THE PATH WILL NOT BE OVERGROWN
| 1. Complex independent expedition: C I E The second attack of fantasists. The riddle of Martian satellite. Plekhanov and Tungusov. Passing the button. 2. The second Plekhanov's expedition. Volunteers. In middle of Twenties century. 3. Joint expedition. "The roof" is necessary. Turning point. Logic and intuition. Birth of "butterfly". Scorch. |
4. Splitting. Non-typical facts. The last Academy expedition. 5. Zolotov's expeditions. Science fiction as an instruction. State program. The first deciphering. Dissertation of heretic. 6. Two discoveries. Wave from the sky. Storm in magnetosphere. Nuclear or sun storm? Facts versus logic. New stage. |
Book two: STEPS TO THE SKY
PART IV FACTS, GUESSES, HYPOTHESES
| 1. Two strategies. Sceptics and enthusiasts. Siberian commission. 2. College of knowledge limits. Rout spiral. What to do? To horizon. Again to meteorite. 3. Discussion on Tunguska comet. Wipple comet. Fesenkov comet. This is not a comet. |
4. Tunguska "butterfly". Forest-fall maps. The first dissertation. Centre and "fir". But was there or not an explosion? Butterfly model. Spindle. Again splinters? 5. Attack of physicists. Fifty megatons. Korobeinikov theory. Bronshten theory. Meteorite with quality sign. 6. As a nuclear bomb. Tunguska explosive. Signs on the sky. Tracks on earth. Radiocarbon. From California to Evenkia. Closing of anomalies. |
PART V SEARCHING FOR TRUTH
| 1. New anomalies. Magnetic track. Crystals light. Nuclear breaking. 2. Living witnesses. Acceleration. Mutants. 3. Fire from heaven. Burn. "Burnists". Fire phantom. Fire. |
4. Cosmic dust. Pro et contra. Invisible dust. Ytterbium, sodium, hydrogen. Kiever's contribution. Isotopes and fertilisers. Map of ashes. 5. Illumination above Euroasia. Roerich colours. The riddle of Arago point. Comet tail. 6. Human memory. Legends and digits. Konenkin' s route. Manoeuvre. Witnesses - into system. Several bodies? Tracks of splinters? |
PART VI THE STORY IS GOING ON
| 1. Comet or plasmoid? Azimuth is needed. Logic of geophysics. Symposium in Krasnoyarsk. Sun messenger. |
2. New sensations. The third comet. Corrections of Halley comet. "Pre-Tunguska meteorite". Natural or artificial? Explosion of a spacecraft. |
3. Conclusion: What will bee?
After-word of one co-author.
Bibliography.
SUPPLEMENT
Academician N.V. Vasiljev. History of the Tunguska meteorite problem study.
Dr. V.K. Zhuravlyov. Methodology end history of the Tunguska phenomenon study on the basis of its artificial nature hypothesis.
Professor N.Kh. Belous. Facts and suppositions (scientific review of the problem).