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According to researchers, one of the few significant meteors to impact the Earth’s surface occurred on June 30th, 1908 in Tunguska, Siberia. Today, this event stands as the likely origin of Meteor Day, a nationally-observed celebration of the stunning sights visible through the scope of a telescope. The average meteorite is about the size of a pebble, yet approximately 15,000 tons of meteoroids enter our atmosphere on a given day, with very few eclipsing that barrier and reaching....