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=== June === * [[June 28]] β An [[Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908|annular solar eclipse]] is visible from Central America, North America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa and is the 33rd solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 135]]. * [[June 29]] β Kohlerer-Bahn by [[Bleichert]] opens in [[Bolzano]], [[South Tyrol]], the first modern aerial enclosed [[Aerial lift|cable car]] solely for passenger service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kohlererbahn.it/eng/our-100-years.html|title=Our 100 Years|access-date=November 7, 2021|archive-date=December 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210012205/https://www.kohlererbahn.it/eng/our-100-years.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[June 30]] (June 17 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) β The [[Tunguska event]] or "Russian explosion" near the [[Podkamennaya Tunguska River]] in [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], [[Siberia]], [[Russian Empire]], is believed to have been caused by the [[air burst]] of a large [[meteoroid]] or [[comet]] fragment, at an altitude of {{convert|5|β|10|km|0}} above the [[Earth]]'s surface.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pasechnik|first=I. P.|chapter=Refinement of the moment of explosion of the Tunguska meteorite from the seismic data|title=Cosmic Matter and the Earth|location=Novosibirsk|publisher=Nauka|year=1986|page=66|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farinella |first1=Paolo |last2=Foschini |first2=L. |last3=FroeschlΓ© |first3=Christiane |last4=Gonczi |first4=R. |last5=Jopek |first5=T. J. |last6=Longo |first6=G. |last7=Michel |first7=Patrick |url=http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/aah2886.pdf |title=Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body |journal=[[Astronomy and Astrophysics|Astronomy & Astrophysics]] |volume=377 |pages=1081β1097 |year=2001 |issue=3 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20011054 |access-date=2011-08-23 |bibcode=2001A&A...377.1081F |doi-access=free |archive-date=October 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009172144/http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/aah2886.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Trayner|first=Chris|url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994Obs...114..227T/0000227.000.html|title=Perplexities of the Tunguska Meteorite|journal=[[The Observatory (journal)|The Observatory]]|volume=114|pages=227β231|year=1994|access-date=2011-08-23|bibcode=1994Obs...114..227T|archive-date=June 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620074218/http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994Obs...114..227T/0000227.000.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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