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Old 17-10-2013, 01:18 PM
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Cool Divers recover half-tonne meteorite from lake near Chelyabinsk

Divers have recovered a half-tonne rock from Lake Chebarkul, Russia, said to be
a fragment of the meteorite that fell there on Feb 15th.

It measures 1.5m long.

Dr Caroline Smith, curator of meteorites at London's Natural History Museum,
confirmed that the object was a meteorite from characteristic features of a fusion crust and regmaglypts.

Story and video on BBC here -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24550941

I note glenc has also reported this in the observational forum here -
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...62&postcount=4

Last edited by gary; 17-10-2013 at 01:36 PM.
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