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Wikipedia Trails - From Arjuna to Asteroids?

I started with Arjuna, one of the Pandava Brothers. He was one of the more heavily featured of the brothers so I felt it would be a good place to start.

I then found out that there is a class of asteroid named after him. The Arjuna class of asteroids are near earth asteroids with low inclination, eccentricity, and a nearly 1 year period of revolution about the sun.

From there I took a look at other near-earth objects. There is some really cool stuff near us.

Then I went to read up about the Tunguska event. I have heard about it, but never really read much about it. Essentially there was an explosion in 1908 in Siberia. We don't really know what caused it, but one of the leading theories is that it was caused by an asteroid.

Trees Knocked Over by the Blast
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  1. UnknownApril 13, 2018 at 2:02 PM

    Chris, I did not know of the Arjuna asteroids, and your wikipedia trail was very interesting to find out about. The Tunguska event is also extremely exciting, especially for someone with a space focus like you. The curious thing about the Tunguska event is that the meteor would have "detonated" above the ground, but there are not any "great" theories as to how this would have occured.

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