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In 1908 Something Exploded Over Siberia With the Force of Hundreds of Hiroshima Bombs, Flattening 2,000 Square Kilometres of Forest and Leaving No Crater

The sky split open. The forest exploded. Millions of trees fell in a single instant. But when scientists finally reached the blast site, one thing was missing that shouldn't be. On the morning of 30 June 1908, a fireball lit the sky above the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia. An eyewitness, quoted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, described the moment: “the sky split in two and fire appeared high... [5654 chars]

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