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The Tunguska event was the biggest asteroid impact in recorded history. How did it vanish without a trace?

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On June 30, 1908, an asteroid flattened an estimated 80 million trees in Siberia. Yet no one has ever found the asteroid fragments or an impact site. One popular theory is that the asteroid formed Lake Cheko, a freshwater lake about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the explosion epicenter.

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The Tunguska event was the biggest asteroid impact in recorded history. How did it vanish without a trace?

During the Tunguska event, over 8 million trees covering an area of 830 square miles were flattened when an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere.

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