PLEASE NOTE:
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Date sent: Tue, 2 Sep
1997 18:03:01 +0100 (BST)
From:
Jonathan Shanklin <jdsh@mail.nerc-bas.ac.uk
To:
Benny J Peiser <B.J.PEISER@livjm.ac.uk
Copies to:
cambridge-conference@livjm.ac.uk
Subject:
Re: A SECOND 'TUNGUSKA' EVENT?
I recently did some literature searching of journals from the
time whilst
researching suggestions that the event caused a display of
nacreous clouds.
I don't recall seeing any suggestion of further events in the
journals I
looked at. The UK Met Office should have barograms of the
time in their
archives.
Jon Shanklin
j.shanklin@bas.ac.uk
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, England
http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/jds
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Date sent: Tue, 02 Sep
1997 10:57:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:
HUMBPEIS <B.J.PEISER@livjm.ac.uk
Subject:
1908
To:
cambridge-conference@livjm.ac.uk
Priority: NORMAL
from: Duncan Steel <dis@a011.aone.net.au
Dear Joel,
I saw the note about the possible later event (July 1908) that
you sent
Benny Peiser (I note that you wrote 'prior' Tunguska, whereas in
fact it
would have been post-Tunguska, if it happened at all; & we
know nothing much
about the date unless one makes some assumptions about the
correspondence
with the publication date).
This is just to mention something obvious to you: for any
'dates'
coming out of Russia, beware of the fact that at that time that
country was
still on the Julian calendar (at that time, 13 days behind the
Gregorian
calendar). Thus the 'October Revolution' actually occurred in
early November
(Gregorian). This should be pretty obvious in that the original
accounts
from Russia/Siberia of Tunguska use a date earlier than June 30.
Cheers,
Duncan