Started by Theo Martin (@theo_m) ·
tunguska flattened 80 million trees and left no crater
An object exploded in the air over Siberia in 1908 and flattened about 2,000 km² of forest. No crater because it never hit the ground. Chelyabinsk in 2013 was the same thing but smaller, and on dashcams.
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- “tunguska event what was it”
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- Chelyabinsk meteor
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- “tunguska event what was it” (google.com)
- Tunguska event (en.wikipedia.org)
- Air burst (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chelyabinsk meteor (en.wikipedia.org)
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