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English: *Description: Trees were knocked down and burned over hundreds of square km by the Tunguska meteoroid impact.
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current 04:30, 3 January 2007 Thumbnail for version as of 04:30, 3 January 2007 2,408×1,848 (427 KB) Cyrotux (This Version is a bit nicer :))
22:25, 29 December 2006 Thumbnail for version as of 22:25, 29 December 2006 2,422×1,857 (255 KB) Cyrotux (upload dont working? second try!)
22:22, 29 December 2006 Thumbnail for version as of 22:22, 29 December 2006 2,422×1,857 (255 KB) Cyrotux (Took second version and optimized it with the gimp.)
08:06, 25 October 2006 Thumbnail for version as of 08:06, 25 October 2006 2,409×1,846 (573 KB) Conscious (Reverted to earlier revision)
08:06, 25 October 2006 Thumbnail for version as of 08:06, 25 October 2006 675×450 (58 KB) Conscious (version from http://geophysics.ou.edu/impacts/tunguska_trees.jpg)
17:14, 12 August 2005 Thumbnail for version as of 17:14, 12 August 2005 2,409×1,846 (573 KB) ArtMechanic
17:33, 25 June 2005 Thumbnail for version as of 17:33, 25 June 2005 2,500×1,933 (1.2 MB) Thuresson (*Description: Trees were knocked down and burned over hundreds of square km by the Tunguska meteoroid impact *Note: This image is public domain, from the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1927 *Source: [http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~jlandstr/planets/webfigs/impacts/s)
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