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           95-TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TUNGUSKA EVENT
                       (TUNGUSKA 2003)
                   INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

                          CONTENTS

1. GENERAL INFORMATION
2. PLACE AND TIME
3. ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
4. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
5. CULTURAL PROGRAM
6. CONTACT INFO
7. WEATHER AT THE CONFERENCE AREAS

                    1. GENERAL INFORMATION

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 Moscow, and Krasnoyarsk, and in a 
settlement of Vanavara (which is about 70 km from the Tunguska 
epicenter). 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 included 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.

                       2. PLACE AND TIME

The conference will be held in Moscow, a capital of Russia, and in
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, and in a settlement of Vanavara, Evenkia.

Planned dates of the conference are on June 25-26, 2003 in Moscow, 
June 28-29 in Krasnoyarsk, and June 30 - July 2 in Vanavara and for 
the trip to the Tunguska epicenter (see below). Currently, a possible 
shift of the schedule is no more than 1-2 days (it will be "zeroed" in 
a couple of months).

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).

              3. ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

*ORGANIZATIONS
Administration of Evenkiya;
National reserve "Tungusskii";
Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (Mephi);
"Krosna" gallery
*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Zolotarev B.N.
Batygina E.K. (coordinator)
Romeiko V.A.
Rodionov B.U.
Zotkin I.T.
Soukhenko O.S.
Ol'khovatov A.Yu.

                            4. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Main topics of the conference are the following:

- new factual data on Tunguska;
- new interpretations of Tunguska;
- summaries and reviews of our knowledge on Tunguska;
- other natural phenomena resembling Tunguska
   (maybe on other scales);
- history of Tunguska research;
- Tunguska in works of art.

Submission of titles of reports and abstracts is prefered by e-mail to 
an e-mail address given here. Please, e-mail your abstract in the body 
of your e-mail (not as attached file) as simple text (abstract's 
volume - up to 2 kb). If for some reasons it is a problem for you, 
please, let us know.  A deadline for reports (titles and abstracts) 
submission is May 30, 2003.  More info is to be posted later

                       5. CULTURAL PROGRAM

To be posted later

                         5. CONTACT INFO

*For general info (about travel, accomodation, etc.), please contact
 Elena Batygina
Phone: + 7  (095) 956-1910
Fax: + 7  (095) 207-7594
E-mail: batyginaek{at}evenkya.ru

*For info about scientific program, and submission reports, etc.,
 please, contact me (i.e. Andrei Ol'khovatov)
E-mail: olkhov{at}mail.ru

                 6. WEATHER AT THE CONFERENCE AREAS

                               Moscow
                            Krasnoyarsk
            Vanavara (70 km from the Tunguska epicenter)

                     UPDATES ARE TO FOLLOW SOON

http://olkhov.narod.ru/conf03.htm

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