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S03E08: Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery

Horizon · 1966
Aired 10 Apr 1966 at 8:00pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of preserving limestone. In 1908, a vast explosion shook the Tungus district of Siberia: was it due to the biggest meteorite ever to hit the earth, or something odder?

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