Tunguska (The X-Files)
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"Tunguska" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on November 24, 1996. It was directed by Kim Manner
The possible discovery of life in the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite inspired the episode's script.
Allan Hills 84001
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Allan Hills 84001 is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. Like other
Tunguska (The X-Files)
…the third-season episodes Piper Maru and Apocrypha. "Tunguska" was inspired by reports of evidence of extraterrestrial life possibly being found in the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, while the gulag setting was inspired by the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story offered the writers a chance to expand the scale of…
Meteorite fragment ALH84001
ALH84001 on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History