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Will the world end in 2178?

The LRB Podcast

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The Tunguska Impact

No one's found the impact often where there's a large meteor impact. In Wenchkum, in Gloucester, we found the meteorite. But with Tunguska, which was the last, I think, big impact that we know of, at least on land,. The evidence is all indirect - so trees were flattened across a vast area of Siberia and in a radial pattern around an explosion.

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