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*Images related to the crater hypothesis*

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*The Anfinogenov spindles*

/In the figure/: /h/ ? height from the Earth surface; /r/ ? distance
from the point called "Fast Epicenter"; /TCB1/ (green) - The main
fragment of the Tunguska Cosmic Body that caused the forest devastation;
/TCB2/ (red) - The fragment of the TCB that flew in the direction of the
lake Cheko; /TCB3/ (blue) - Some minor fragment of the TCB that
penetrated the permafrost with an energy not sufficient to create a
crater. The width of the cylinders is proportional to the energy emitted
in the corresponding path segment.

In the qualitative Anfinogenov model the bolide begins disrupting and
vaporizing when it enters the stratosphere and releases an increasing
energy as it moves down. The maximal energy emission is reached by TCB1
at a height of 6?8 km. The resulting shock wave has the form of the
so-called ?Anfinogenov spindle?. On the basis of the tree fall data and
earlier eyewitness testimonies we consider that the TCB was a multiple
bolide formed by at least two bodies of similar mass. They likely
entered the atmosphere very close to each other following parallel
trajectories with azimuths ~135°. The second body flew slightly higher,
behind the first, and was decelerated by the shock wave. The resulting
summary shock wave from the different spindles had an inclination angle
of it symmetry axis ? = ~45° (see paper pdf, 18.9 Mb
<Asteroids-Chapter-18.pdf>).

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