A date stone-shaped fragment of the famous Chelyabinsk meteorite - TopicsExpress



          

A date stone-shaped fragment of the famous Chelyabinsk meteorite weighting several hundred kilograms was located on the bed of a lake in the Urals. Divers are planning to start recovery of the celestial object later this week. The chunk is covered by about 2.5 meters of sediments and is estimated to be 30 to 100cm long while weighing about 600kg. The fragment is the largest by a great margin found from the blast event, which was the most powerful of its kind since the Tunguska Event in 1908. Previously only several dozen fragments weighting up to a few kilograms were discovered and studied. rt/news/chelyabinsk-meteorite-recovery-lake-660/
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:15:46 +0000

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