118 Years After Tunguska: How A Siberian Explosion Reshaped Impact Science

The 1908 Tunguska explosion caused no recorded deaths due to remote location, but scientists note a similar event over a populated city like Chelyabinsk would cause enormous human casualties.

On the morning of June 30, 1908, a silent wilderness above the Podkamennaya Tunguska River became the stage for one of Earth's most consequential collisions with the cosmos — an airburst that left no crater, only a vast silence of flattened trees and unanswered questions. For over a century, that silence has spoken loudly, compelling scientists to rethink what it means for something to fall from the sky, and governments to reckon with the fragility of civilization beneath an open atmosphere. Tunguska did not merely record a disaster; it inaugurated a new discipline — planetary defense — and re

118 Years After Tunguska: How A Siberian Explosion Reshaped Impact Science

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