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Asteroid Day 2026: Remembering the 1908 Tunguska event that flattened 772 square miles of Siberian forest
That asteroid explosion over Tunguska was 1,000 times stronger than the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over Siberia. And it changed science forever.
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June 30, 1908: The Tunguska impact
An enormous explosion occurred approximately 3 to 6 miles (3.8 to 9.7 kilometers) above the Tunguska River area of Siberia on June 30, 1908, when an asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in ...
On June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion in a remote stretch of Siberia flattened and bruned nearly 1,000 square miles of ...
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