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THE LATEST UPDATE
June 26. Yesterday the conference finished its work. Some more details in the
"Tunguska news".
JUNE 19. Unfortunately due to some unexpected problems with financing the conference,
the situation with it is not very good. To summ up. As I know, just a small
local conference is planned in Krasnoyarsk on June 29. Not much things
(nothing?) in Vanavara. And a trip to the Tunguska epicenter is abandoned
(but those who are interested to visit the epicenter probably could do this
later in the summer - please contact us).
Please, pay attention that most of the info below is outdated (due to
unexpected problems with financing of the conference), so please contact
us for details.
As the conference in Moscow was planned as "self-funded" from the early beginning,
so it is in a better state.
Yesterday we have a final (I hope) organizational meeting of the
conference. It was decided that despite an "astronomical institute is for
astronomical interpretations", the prevailing opinion was that "geophysical
Tunguska" session must be in the astronomical institute too.
And it will be on the afternoon of the first day, parallel/simultaneous with
a session on "calculations of the Tunguska spacebody and asteroid strike
danger" in another hall.
A program of the conference is here
in Russian. The opening of the conference is at 10 am, June 24
(a registration is since 9 am) in the Astronomical Institute named
after P. Shternberg, Moscow, Universitetskii prospekt 13 (on a territory of
the Moscow State University). The end of the conference is on the evening
of June 25.
95-TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TUNGUSKA EVENT
(TUNGUSKA 2003)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CONTENTS
In 2003 there will be 95-th anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska event.
Despite numerous hypotheses, there is still no consensus on "what it was".
The hypotheses vary from a meteorite fall, and a gas outburst to an "alien
spaceship" (see, for example, Tunguska 98,
and Tunguska 2001 conferences).
Thus due to large interest in scientific and general public, administration
of Evenkia has decided to organize, and hold an international conference
"95-th Anniversary of the Tunguska event" (i.e. "Tunguska 2003") in cities
of Krasnoyarsk, and in a settlement of Vanavara (which is about
70 km from the Tunguska epicenter). Due to large importance of holding Tunguska
conference in Moscow, in there a special session of the Tunguska 2003
conference is being organized by international organizing committee with
support of Administration of Evenkia and some other organizations.
And, of course, a trip to the Tunguska epicenter is planned.
So if even you are not a scientist, but just interested to visit the
epicenter as a tourist, for example, anyway you are welcome!
Besides Tunguska, topics of the conference include related items, i.e
other similar (whatever origin, as we don't know Tunguska's origin) natural
events (including on other scales).
Also a cultural program is to take place.
Publication of Proceedings of the conference is planned.
The expences can be varied, for example, if you ask for luxury
accomodation/apartments, or, in opposite, are ready to settle in
the modest ones.
Also you don't need to pay the conference fee if your main goal
is to visit the Tunguska epicenter, and you will not
attend the Moscow session [hall/room] of the conference (relaxing or
visiting Moscow sights instead, or coming Moscow later, for example).
The Tunguska 2003 conference will begin with a session in Moscow, a
capital of Russia, and then there will be other sessions in Krasnoyarsk,
Siberia, and in a settlement of Vanavara, Evenkia.
Planned dates of the conference are on June 24-25, 2003 in Moscow,
June 27-28 in Krasnoyarsk, and since June 29 till July 3 in Vanavara
and for the trip to the Tunguska epicenter (see below).
A few days long trip to the Tunguska epicenter right after
the conference is planned, as it was during Tunguska 95, and Tunguska
98, and Tunguska 2001 conferences. If you want
to better understand what does the trip mean, you can look at
some pictures.
And, of course, you can participate just in any part of the conference
(just in Moscow, if you are not interested to visit the epicenter; or just
in the trip to the epicenter, if you are a tourist, for example).
Boris N. Zolotarev, the Governor of Evenk Autonomous Region, is a curator of the conference.
Organized by:
Main topics of the conference are the following:
To be posted later
For general info (about travel, accomodation, etc.), please contact Elena Batygina
Moscow
Krasnoyarsk
Vanavara
(70 km from the Tunguska epicenter)
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