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Early morning on June 30, 2008, two helicopters appeared over the Great Hollow. The weather was excellent, the same as it had been a century ago – a perfectly clear blue sky, bright Sun, and heat above 30°C. Through the open portholes the fresh wind of Tunguska was blowing into the passenger compartments of the helicopters.
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Evenkya: almost 800,000 km2; Texas: almost 700,000 km2; and Ukraine: a little above 600,000 km2.
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Rubtsov, V. (2009). So What is the Answer?. In: The Tunguska Mystery. Astronomers' Universe. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76574-7_12
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