Case file · 1908 · Strange History
Tunguska
The Day the Sky Split Open
Something explodes over Siberia and flattens 80 million trees. No crater.
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This 7 min episode was written from the public record. These are the sources behind it.
- NASA: 115 Years Ago: The Tunguska Asteroid Impact Event (official history)
- NASA Earth Observatory: A Cosmic Explosion Over Siberia (the blast site today)
- NASA: Tunguska Revisited: 111-Year-Old Mystery Impact Inspires New, More Optimistic Asteroid Predictions (modern airburst modelling)
- Wikipedia: Tunguska event (overview)
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