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COWAN et al.1 have advanced the hypothesis that the 1908 Tunguska meteor explosion resulted from the anti-matter content of the meteorite. Although their analysis indicates a probable upper limit of 1/7 for the anti-matter content of the Tunguska meteor, this result depends to a large extent on the validity of certain assumptions used in the calculations.
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GENTRY, R. Anti-matter Content of the Tunguska Meteor. Nature 211, 1071–1072 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111071a0
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