Russian researchers investigating the massive Tunguska Event of 1908 found an area in Siberia where eighty million trees were flattened in a radial pattern over eight hundred square miles, yet there was no impact crater.

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Russian researchers investigating the massive Tunguska Event of 1908 found an area in Siberia where eighty million trees were flattened in a radial pattern over eight hundred square miles, yet there was no impact crater. The massive explosion was estimated to be one thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, likely caused by a rogue meteor or comet airbursting a few miles above the isolated frozen tundra. If the celestial object had entered the Earth's atmosphere just a few hours later, the rotation of the planet would have placed it directly over the bustling metropolitan city of St. Petersburg, completely altering the course of human history. The universe essentially threw a gigantic cosmic dart at our planet and luckily hit the absolute emptiest piece of frozen real estate available