Find the 'terrible' fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite
According to Voice of Russia, debris weighing up to several tons of Chelyabinsk meteorite was found at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul.
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One of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite
Arkady Ovcharenko, senior scientist at the Ural Institute of Geophysics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Itar-Tass that, while searching for the weekends, experts have identified location of meteorite fragments 'with a diameter of several meters'.
Ovcharenko said: 'The diameter of the object, according to our estimates, is not less than 2 meters. And its weight to tons'.
Large hole on the ice created by the meteorite of Chelyabinsk on Lake Chebarkul.
Chelyabinsk meteorite entered the Earth atmosphere on February 15, 2013 at 0710 hours (Moscow time). The meteorite exploded at an altitude of 30-50km in the atmosphere and many meteorites fell on the Chelyabinsk region. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Urals and northern Kazakhstan observed this explosion. The largest pieces of meteorite fell near Lake Chebarkul, 78km west of Chelyabinsk.
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