[meteorite-list] Largest Piece So Far of Chelyabinsk Meteorite Found

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:12:17 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8D06CF428B94F74-11F8-646F1_at_webmail-va002.sysops.aol.com>

Thank you for keeping us updated on all things spatial and meteoritic.

The only thing missing in this article is a picture of that Big
Chelyabinsk, but since the owner would like very much to sell it, I am
quite sure that he would not mind at all my publishing the picture he
sent to me, here it is:

http://www.impactika.com/ch-3400.jpg

And since we are talking about Big Chelyabinsk, here is a picture of
the second largest one:

http://www.impactika.com/chely3070a.jpg

At least they are the two largest until we find out what is in that
lake!


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


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From: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 7:38 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] Largest Piece So Far of Chelyabinsk Meteorite
Found



http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130821/182894364/Largest-Piece-So-Far-of-Chelyabinsk-Meteorite-Found--Scientists.html

Largest Piece So Far of Chelyabinsk Meteorite Found - Scientists
RIA Novosti
August 21, 2013

YEKATERINBURG - Russian scientists have confirmed the authenticity of
a 3.4-kilogram (7.5-pound) fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite - the
largest piece found so far from the meteorite that hit the Urals region
in February.

An unnamed resident of the Chelyabinsk region in Russia's Urals found
the fragment near the village of Timiryazevsky and submitted it for
analysis
and authentication to Chelyabinsk State University.

"Yes, it is a meteorite. This is the largest [Chelyabinsk] fragment
analyzed
so far by scientists," Andrei Kocherov, an official from the
university,
told RIA Novosti.

The lucky owner was given an official certificate confirming the
authenticity
of the celestial fragment, Kocherov said.

The meteorite, more than 18 meters in size and weighing 10,000 metric
tons, exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals on February
15.
The blast was an equivalent to 440 kilotons of TNT - 27 times more
powerful
than the nuclear bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945. The meteorite
blast
left 1,200 injured, most by window glass shattered by the shockwave.

The meteorite broke into some seven large fragments, and one of them is
believed to have fallen into Chebarkul Lake, forming a hole in the ice
about eight meters in diameter. In late March, a radar probe of the
bottom
of the lake revealed a crater possibly created by a fragment of a
meteorite.

Chelyabinsk region authorities have allocated 3 million rubles (about
$10,000) for the recovery of the fragment, which is believed to have an
oval shape, a size of up to a meter and a weight of about 600 kilograms.
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