Curuçá River (Javari River)
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| Curuçá River | |
| Country | Brazil |
|---|---|
| Source | Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, Atalaia do Norte, State of Amazonas |
| Mouth | Javary River |
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| Length | 530 km (329 mi) [1] |
Curuçá River is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil.[2] It is entirely located within the municipality of Atalaia do Norte.
1930 Curuçá River event
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On August 13, 1930 the area near latitude 5° S and longitude 71.5° W experienced a meteoric air burst, also known as the Brazilian Tunguska event.[3][4] The mass of the meteorite was estimated at between 1,000 and 25,000 tons, with an energy release estimated between 0.1 and 5 megatons, significantly smaller than the Tunguska Event.[3][4][5][6]
See also
References
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- ↑ Amazon Region Map, Brazilian Ministry of Transport.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reza, Ramiro de la. O evento do Curuçá: bólidos caem no Amazonas (The Curuçá Event: Bolides Fall in the Amazon) (Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: National Observatory. Retrieved from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas website.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reza, Ramiro de la; Martini, P. R.; Brichta, A.; Lins de Barros, H.; Serra, P.R.M. The Event Near The Curuçá River, presented at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 67th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, August 2–6, 2004. Retrieved from Universities Space Research Association (USRA) website, Columbia, MD.
- ↑ Lienhard, John H. Meteorite at Curuçá, The Engines of Our Ingenuity, University of Houston with KUHF-FM Houston.
- ↑ McFarland, John. The Day the Earth Trembled, Armagh, Northern Ireland: Armagh Observatory website, last revised on November 10, 2009.
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