GR/Pynchon newbie question

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Brendan Foreman wrote:
> > >Can someone offer me any explanations as to what the Kirghiz Light is?  

> I was always under the impression that it was referring to the mysterious
> explosion that occurred in Siberia in 1908.  It's thought to have been a
> comet impacting the Earth.  But looking it up in the atlas, I see that
> Kirghiz is (or was) an area just northeast of Afghanistan.  So, I guess

The explosion you refer to is usually called the Tunguska Event.

Max

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