The last update of this file: March 15, 2024
A NOTE FOR VISITORS
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"One thing I learnt in a long life, that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - yet it is the most precious thing we have"
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Here you can read about: the 1908 Tunguska event; electrophonic sounds, geophysical meteors, and many other exciting things. The site is under permanent updating.
A few words about me, i.e. the author, Andrei Yu. Ol'khovatov.
By the way, please pay attention that sometimes my surname is translated
in English as Olkhovatov, i.e. without apostrophe (compare with:
Ol'khovatov).
It is because the apostrophe means "myagkii znak" in Russian (a Russian
letter meaning a sign of softening of spelling), and the letter is absent in English.
I was born in 1960 in Moscow, Russia. In 1983 I graduated from the
Physical Department of the Moscow State University.
In 1992 I have defended my thesis/dissertation, and became Cand. Sc.
(Phys.&Math.), which corresponds to Ph.D. in USA approximately.
From 1983 to 1986 I
was working in the Radio Instrument Industry Research Institute. From 1987
to 1992 I was working in TsNPO "Vympel", and then have returned to the
institute, where I worked as a senior scientific worker. In 2001 I got
off the job at the institute and moved to a part-time job in a civil
non-state firm, which has
a little (if anything) to do with science. Now I am a retired worker (a pensioner).So now in science I am independent researcher/expert, and I feel much more free in expressing my scientific opinion.
Despite that noboby pays for my scientific investigations, I consider
science as my work, and not just my hobby. My hobbies are: listen to good
music, especially such as swing and classic rock'n'roll,
In science I am interested in manifestations of tectonic activity,
atmospheric electricity phenomena, meteor phenomena, and in unexplained
natural phenomena in general. Here are some of them (I suppose to add
some more later):
A BRIEF VERSION OF 'THE TECTONIC INTERPRETATION OF THE 1908 TUNGUSKA EVENT'- My idea on the origin of the 1908 Tunguska event (I can say, that it becomes rather popular in Russia). (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
A LARGE VERSION OF 'THE TECTONIC INTERPRETATION OF THE 1908 TUNGUSKA EVENT' - Large version of the article.
TUNGUSKA RESEARCH AND OTHER NEWS- Here you can read news on the 1908 Tunguska event's research (which are not presented in the above-mentioned Tunguska article) and on other topics. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
TUNGUSKA 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - Info on the the TUNGUSKA 2008 International conference. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
TUNGUSKA 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - Info on the the TUNGUSKA 2003 International conference. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
TUNGUSKA 2001 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - Info on the TUNGUSKA 2001 International conference. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
THE 1998 KRASNOYARSK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TUNGUSKA- You can read about the conference and its abstracts. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
TUNGUSKA AND OTHER PICTURES- Here you can see pictures related with the 1908 Tunguska event and on other topics. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
CATALOG OF TUNGUSKA WITNESS'S ACCOUNTS - There are (in Russian) several hundreds Tunguska witness's accounts in a form of a Word-file. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
GEOPHYSICAL METEORS - This www-page is devoted to the phenomenon, which resembles meteors, but has non-meteoroidal origin (some of them are real mini-Tunguskas!). The item below, "ROCKET LIGHTNING, MAYBE" is on other possible examples of geophysical meteors, associated with aviation. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
"ROCKET LIGHTNING, MAYBE" - A poll conducted by AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY magazine revealed that 2/3 of participants were not satisfied with NTSB conclusion that TWA Flight 800 crash was caused by a spontaneous fuel tank explosion. Indeed the conclusion has problems in explaining reports of numerous eyewitnesses of 'streak of light', etc.. So many people think that it was a missile... But couldn't the streak be something else than a missile?... (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
METEOROIDAL METEORS - This www-page describes 'usual' i.e. astronomical meteors, produced by spacebodies (meteoroids). Despite that in general the meteor phenomena are rather well-understood, there are still many unknown and/or anomalous aspects. In there you can read my AIAA Paper 2000 - 0589 on anomalously high meteors. Another mysterious meteor phenomena - electrophonic sounds are in the separate section below, due to their importance. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
ELECTROPHONIC SOUNDS - Electrophonic sounds are sounds simultaneous with a flight of a bright bolide. Modern science just recently was to recognize them, as their nature is still a mystery. In there you can read about them, including my letters published in METEORITE!, and NEW SCIENTIST magazines. (Currently this link can't work or can go to my old web-page on narod.ru web-site - see also below)
VIDEO OF METEORS on youtube- My video of some meteors and bolides which I was able to video.
You can e-mail me: olkhov77$gmail.com (please, change $ to @ due to anti-spam)
This my web-page was previously placed at free web-site (hosting) www.geocities.com/olkhov.
But the free web-hosting was closed later. So I have to move to a new free web-host narod.ru . Unfortunately recently the web-host start to insert bad advertisements and even decreased a limit for a number of files in a folder, etc., so I have problem with updating, etc...
So I decided to move (at least) a part of my web-site to another free web-host. So here it is in the process...
