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On June 30th, 1908, something exploded 8 km above the Stony Tunguska river. About 2150 square kilometres of Siberian taiga were devastated and 80 millions trees were overthrown. Up to now, it is not clear whether the great explosion was due to a comet or an asteroid or something else. We are searching for an answer.

Tunguska region in 1938:
Portion of one of the photos from Kulik's aerial photographic survey (1938) of the Tunguska region.
The parallel fallen trees indicate the direction of the blast wave.

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Lake Cheko, 05 July 2009: Romano Serra collects wood samples of trees that survived the 1908 explosion to obtain information on the impact dynamics.

Lake Cheko, 04 July 2009: Marco Cocchi and Carlo Stanghellini filming the bottom of the lake covered by a carpet of branches.


  • Luca Gasperini, Enrico Bonatti, Sonia Albertazzi, Luisa Forlani, Carla A. Accorsi, Giuseppe Longo, Mariangela Ravaioli, Francesca Alvisi, Alina Polonia, Fabio Sacchetti: "Sediments from Lake Cheko (Siberia), a possible impact crater for the 1908 Tunguska Event", Terra Nova, Volume 21, Issue 6 (December 2009), (pp 489-494) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00906.x © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (pdf 935 kb). More information