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Find the largest piece of meteorite falling in Russia
A resident in Russia found a meteorite weighing 3.4kg. This is the largest piece found from meteorite falling in the Urals region of Russia in February 2013.
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America exhibits Russian meteorite fragments
The Field Museum in Chicago (USA) said it had collected 234 meteorite pieces of the terrorist that exploded in the sky of Russia's Urals region in February.
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Tracing the past of exploding meteors in the Russian sky
The meteorite exploded in the Russian sky last month more likely to split from an asteroid and collided with another celestial body tens of millions of years ago.
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Russia found the meteorite falling in Lake Chebakul
A member of the meteorite committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Victor Grikhovski, from Ural Federal University, said Russian scientists have found a broken piec…
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Found 53 'meteorite fragments'
Russian police are verifying information that meteorite debris falls in the central region of Urals, being sold online, while scientists claim to find 53 fragments.
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Meteorites caught fire in Russia, 500 people were injured
An asteroid caught fire and exploded violently, dragging shocks and glare in the sky of central Russia, breaking many glass doors and injuring hundreds.
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Flocking to find meteorite fragments in Russia
Meteorite collectors are coming to Russia's Chelyabinsk area to search for meteorite fragments after a large object exploded in the sky on February 15.
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The United States did not detect meteorite falling in Russia
A US senator commented that the US government invested a lot of money in the program to track objects near the earth, but their devices still could not detect meteorites…
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Find the meteorite at the bottom of the lake in vain
Divers have just finished checking Lake Chebarkul, where a meteorite is thought to fall and create a giant crater on the ice, but no trace is found.
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Meteors fell into Russia weighing 10,000 tons
The meteorite falling into the Russian Ural region has been recalculated by NASA based on the latest data, with a mass of about 10,000 tons and a destructive power of up…
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Meteors will 'visit' the earth every 100 years
The meteorite weighing about 10,000 tons flew through the sky in the Ural region in the early morning hours on Friday when the world was holding its breath in anticipati…
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Russia wants to set up a system to block cosmic hazards
Russia's deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said yesterday he supported the call for the establishment of a system capable of preventing threats from space outside the…
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Decipher the mystery of the meteorite
Many large and small devastations by meteorites have occurred throughout the history of tens of billion years of Earth existence. Many countermeasures have also been stu…
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Finding meteorite fragments in Russia
A group of Russian scientists on February 17 found a stone, believed to be a meteorite fragment at Lake Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region, on February 15, after the Ru…
Environment
Radioactive clouds covering Europe may originate from Russia
Abnormal radioactive clouds containing ruthenium-106 isotopes that appeared in Europe in October may have originated in Russia, according to the Russian Meteorological A…