Meteorites Penetration into the Dense Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere: Physical Mechanism behind the Explosive Phenomena

This discussion paper is an attempt to consider new ideas about the nature of explosive phenomena of the meteorite bodies in the Earth's atmosphere. Authors attract approaches, based on the concepts of physics of combustion, explosion and detonation in order to explain the explosive collapse of the meteorite. Authors believe that the meteorite explosion may be the result of gas-detonation mechanism of overheated meteoric bodies explosive boiling-up (the "vapor explosion"), accompanied by the formation of a supersonic front of shock wave. The considered hypothesis regarding the role of the "vapor explosion" in geological disasters can be used to explain the mechanisms of explosive phenomena in Volcanology: (1) With respect to the description of nature of phreatic eruptions; (2) for interpretation of dynamic regularities of the volcano crater opening and the subsequent shock-wave emission of steam-gas "fountain" to a height of several kilometers with fragments of magma and rocks as a result of the "vapor explosion" of overheated magma mass under the dome of the volcano.