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The sky splits open over Siberia · Tunguska 1908
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The Tunguska event, 30 June 1908: 65 km away, a man on his porch felt his shirt catch fire, and 2,150 km² of Siberian forest fell flat. No crater was ever found.
Time & Space · Ep. 7
Visuals are AI reconstructions; research & narration by Eli. Sources in the pinned comment.
Next: 1859. The sky turns red, and the wires spark.
Sources and further reading are listed in the full story: The Tunguska Event, 1908: The Day the Sky Exploded Over Siberia
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The Tunguska Event, 1908: The Day the Sky Exploded Over Siberia
In 1908 a space rock exploded in the air over Siberia and flattened 2,000 square kilometres of forest — the largest impact event in recorded history, and it left no crater.
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