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Tunguska mystery (almost) solved

15th July 2008, 12:30 am

By Andy Kaiser 
Article ID: 1240

 

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It was a quiet morning on June 30, 1908. The event occurred in a remote location of heavily-forested Siberia, in the Russian Federation.

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