Tunguska

[ toong-goo-skuh; Russian toon-goo-skuh ]

noun

1. any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the Lower Tunguska, 2,000 miles (3,220 km) long; the Upper Tunguska or the lower course of the Angara, 1,151 miles (1,855 km) long; and the Stony Tunguska, about 975 miles (1,570 km) long.

Tunguska

/ tunˈɡuskə /

noun

1. any of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, all tributaries of the Yenisei: the Lower (Nizhnyaya) Tunguska 2690 km (1670 miles) long; the Stony (Podkamennaya) Tunguska 1550 km (960 miles) long; the Upper (Verkhnyaya) Tunguska which is the lower course of the Angara

Example Sentences

The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the Tunguska event in 1908 when a 50-metre asteroid exploded in the skies above Siberia.

From BBC

Another is the object that detonated above a region near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia in 1908, scorching and flattening trees across a remote area that was almost twice the size of Hong Kong.

From Scientific American

It was also a massive learning experience for scientists, the largest atmospheric impact since the Tunguska bolide in 1908.

From Scientific American

In 1908, an asteroid or comet traveling at about 33,500 miles per hour blew up three to six miles over the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia.

From Washington Post

“Layer after layer, rising up through time. We’d float up through the whole Tunguska sequence, and then we’d meet the flood basalts themselves.”

From Washington Post