The Tapanui region of New Zealand: Site of a Tunguska around 800 years ago?

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992acm..proc..569s&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991 p 569-572 (SEE N93-19113 06-90)

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Bolides, Forest Fires, Impact, Histories, New Zealand

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Evidence is discussed that the wide-spread fires ca. 800 years ago which denuded the southern provinces of the South Island of New Zealand of the extensive forests present at that time were due to the entry of a large bolide into the atmosphere, the conflagration being ignited by the intense heat generated as this extraterrestrial projectile ablated/detonated in a similar manner to that of the Tunguska object of 1908. These fires led to the extinction of the giant terrestrial bird known as the Moa, and the end of the archaic epoch of Maori history known as the Moa Hunter period. This interpretation is well attested to in Maori myth and legend.

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