Word: sak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forces created by its fiery plunge through the atmosphere. It would have exploded before impact, scattering particles over a wide region. The explosion would have produced a fireball and intense shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth's vicinity that is also the probable source of an annual meteor shower in late June-the time of the Tunguska event...