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The Chelyabinsk meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC). The object exploded in an air burst over Chelyabinsk Oblast, at a height of around 29.7 km. The biggest part (~500 kg) was found in a lake
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Russia: huge chunk of Chelyabinsk meteor recovered from lake
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Divers have retrieved an enormous fragment of the meteor that exploded over Russia in February. It has been brought up from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul in the Urals.
The piece of space rock is believed to be the largest to hit earth when a meteor broke up
above the towns of Chelyabinsk, Yekatarinburg and Tyumen.
Scientists from the University of Chelyabinsk led the recovery. Andrei Kochekov, Director of Innovation and Expertise at the university, told reporters: If its weight is more than 500 kilograms then the object is unique in itself. One of the biggest meteors of its class, the stone type.
The force of the shock wave of the meteorite was estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs. More than 1,600 people were injured by the effects of its landing.
Thousands more watched in awe as the meteor exploded before their eyes, falling to earth in a shower of light.
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(* Update links below) The Russian Urals region has been stricken by a sudden cosmic attack. Unidentified flying objects exploded over several major cities, including Chelyabinsk, where the blast waves blew out windows and disrupted mobile connections.
The Emergency Ministry said the incident was caused by a shower of meteorite debris. Unconfirmed reports suggested that a meteorite was shot down by Russian air defenses. Multiple dashboard videos appeared online, showing huge fireballs flying over buildings and exploding with a strong blast. A local zinc factory was the worst-hit, with some of its walls collapsed.
Fireball explosion wreaks havoc across region.
'Shock and frustration': Locals report on meteorite crash in Russian Urals (VIDEO)
A man identifying himself as Viktor poses for a photograph after receiving treatment for injuries sustained from a shock wave that followed after a falling object was sighted in the sky in the Urals region, at an emergency room in a hospital in Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013.(Reuters / Andrei Kuzmin)
9:07 GMT: The object could be about a meter in diameter and weigh a few tons, said Valeriy Shuvalov of the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics. As it entered the atmosphere, it broke into a cloud of pieces that flew on, creating a blast wave and emitting light. That's where the flashes came from, as well as broken windows. Most of the object's material evaporated, the remaining pieces slowed down and fell. It was most likely of iron nature as it penetrated so far through the atmosphere. However, we still don't have the exact data on the debris.
8:56 GMT: The Chelyabinsk regional governor reported that an emergency team discovered that a meteorite fell into a lake near the town of Chebarkul.
8:49 GMT: The number of people requesting medical assistance has risen to 500.
8:30 GMT: Residents of Chelyabinsk buy out plastic wrap to screen the windows blown off by the meteor shower blast wave, as temperatures are expected to fall to -14°C at night.
8:20 GMT: More than 400 people have requested medical attention for minor injuries after a meteor shower hit the Russian Urals region. The number of injured may change, police said.
Damaged factory in Chelyabinsk. Photo from znak.com
CCTV cameras register the moment of explosion
8:10 GMT: Oleg Malkov, an aerospace scientist at Moscow State University, told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the meteorite went undetected by space scanners, likely because it was coming from the direction of the Sun. We can only register stones coming from the direction of the night sky, he explained. Malkov confirmed that the meteor shower in the Urals was not connected to the 2012DA14 asteroid that will approach Earth in a few hours.
8:03 GMT:Up to 250 injured, 3 in critical condition after meteorite hits
7:46 GMT: Ekaterinburg's observatory has officially deemed the incident a fireball meteor shower. No evacuations were called for, and radiation levels were determined to be normal.
7:40 GMT: Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter that he will offer suggestions to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on how to prevent or mitigate meteorite damage in future.
7:30 GMT: The number of people seeking medical attention has risen to 150.
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Meteor - A meteoroid that is observed as it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Meteorite Fragment From Russia Found In A Lake - On Science
Meteorites in lakes and meteorites from Mars.
A global view on the health of the oceans.
Picturing the future of coral reefs.
And scientists head to the county fair. That's today...On Science!
Hello and welcome to On Science. I'm your host Emerald Robinson.
A new piece of space rock has been brought to the surface. Divers in Russia recently pulled a 1200 pound piece of the meteorite that exploded over Russia back in February from a lakebed in the Ural Mountains. More than a dozen meteorite fragments have been recovered from the lake so far, with the heaviest up until now being around 25 pounds. A curator at London's Natural History Museum said the presence of fusion crust, which forms as the meteoroid travels through the atmosphere as a fireball, gave away its extraterrestrial origins. Experts say this is one of the top 10 biggest meteorite fragments ever found. That's one space rock you definitely have to be glad landed it water.
Where do these crazy meteorites come from anyway? Space, duh. But more specifically? The Curiosity rover has proven that some of the meteorites discovered here on Earth made their way from our neighbor - The Red Planet. That means their Martian Meteorites right? Based on info from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, scientists were able to match the argon isotopic ratio found in some meteorites with that seen on Mars, which is slightly different from the rest of the Solar System. On Mars the ratio of light to heavy argon is skewed because most of the planet's original atmosphere was lost to space, losing much of the lighter form of argon. The match has scientists feeling quite confident, boasting that, this direct reading from Mars settles the case with all Martian meteorites. Well, then I guess case closed.
And meteorites aren't the only foreign materials landing in water. Carbon emissions are swimming around too. A new study is taking a comprehensive look at how carbon emissions and warming temperatures will affect the oceans, and what effect that will have on humans. They studied 32 marine habitats and biodiversity hotspots to determine each location's susceptibility to climate change, and looked at data on human dependence on the ocean for goods and services. From their overall view, they said that - without mitigation - nearly every place in the world's ocean will be affected by 2100 which in turn will affect humans who rely on the ocean for food and work. The ocean will see an increase in acidification, a decrease in oxygen and diversity, and a rise in the overall PH level. They found that coral reefs, sea grass beds, and shallow soft-bottom marine habitats would be the most changed. Researchers said this is one legacy that we as humans should not ignore.
And another group is getting a picture of the future of coral reefs. Literally. A team from Stanford University is using drones to map and measure coral reefs. The drones are equipped with an extra special 360-degree camera that images the reefs beneath the surface of the water. The images are then analyzed by, you guessed it, special software, which boosts image resolution and removes distortions caused by water movements. The team is using the images to try to better understand the effects of climate change on corals and to learn about the conditions that help support coral longevity.
And let's leap on to the next story. If you want to study bullfrogs where do you go? To the county fair of course! Researchers from Brown and Northeastern Universities went to the Calavera County Fair in California to study how far a bullfrog can really leap. The researcher from Brown was frustrated with lab leaping analysis of bullfrogs and decided that the best way to see a bullfrog in action was in a frog-leaping contest. Lab measurements hadn't surpassed 1m, although they had heard of winning bull frogs jumping as much as 3m. They filmed the fair jumps and took them back to the lab for analysis. They found that most bullfrogs jumped an average 1.1 to 1.5 m. But for the professionals who went out to hand select their prize-winning jumpers, their frogs hit closer to the 3m mark. The researchers determined it's all a numbers game; the more frogs there are to choose from, the more likely you are to end up with good jumper. So if you plan to enter a frog-leaping competition at the county fair, be sure to look at a lot of frogs to find your winner.
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A search team arrives at the frozen Lake Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region of central Russia on Saturday to look for fragments of a meteorite that hit Friday and injured more than 1,000 people. Adam Brauner reports
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If meteorites larger than 25 meters but smaller than one kilometer (approximately 1/2 mile) were to hit Earth, they would likely cause local damage to the impact area, including cratering, extreme waves, explosions, fire, and shattered glass from the sonic boom upon entering the earth's atmosphere.
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IMPACT! is a planetarium show that immerses you with meteors, meteorites, asteroids, and comets and dramatically demonstrates the potential destruction from a comet impact.
IMPACT! is a planetarium show that teaches about meteors, meteorites, asteroids, and comets. It includes results from recent NASA missions and about the dangers they can pose to life on Earth. It is created for fulldome theaters but is also available on DVD to be shown in flat version for TVs and computer monitors.
It shows dramatically the effects of the Chicxulub and Tungusta events, plus the Pallasite impact that resulted in the Brenham meteorite fall, and describes ways that asteroid hunters seek new objects in the solar system, and how ground penetrating radar is used to find meteorites that have survived to the Earth's surface. Narrated by astronaut Tom Jones, it also discusses ways that humans might try to deflect an asteroid or comet that is on a collision course with Earth.
Millions of asteroids and comets lurk among the planets -- left over bits and pieces from the solar system's formation four and a half billion years ago. Because of them, we live in a dangerous cosmic shooting gallery and impacts still shape the surfaces of the planets and moons. For instance, without warning on Feb. 15, 2013, an asteroid fragment struck Siberia and exploded over a populated area close to the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Dozens of building- and car-mounted video cameras captured the meteor's descent and the shadows it cast, making it the most documented meteor event in history. There were no deaths, but about 1,500 injuries occurred, mostly cuts from glass that broke due to the force of the shock wave produced when the meteor broke up in the atmosphere. Sound waves from this explosion circled the Earth several times.
Created for informal science venues (digital planetariums), it is also useful as ancillary material for middle school science. Created under NASA Cooperative Agreement NCC5-316 to Rice University in conjunction with the Houston Museum of Natural Science as part of the Immersive Earth project, part of the REASoN program.
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4K Russia | Balaklava walking tour | Crimea 2019
Balaklava (Ukrainian: Балаклáва, Russian: Балаклáва, Crimean Tatar: Balıqlava, Greek: Σύμβολον) is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It is an administrative center of Balaklava Raion that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevastopol Municipality. Population: 18,649 (2014 Census).
Balaklava has changed possession several times during its history. A settlement at its present location was founded under the name of Symbolon (Σύμβολον) by the Ancient Greeks, for whom it was an important commercial city.
During the Middle Ages, it was controlled by the Byzantine Empire and then by the Genoese who conquered it in 1365. The Byzantines called the town Yamboli and the Genoese named it Cembalo. The Genoese built a large trading empire in both the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, buying slaves in Eastern Europe and shipping them to Egypt via the Crimea, a lucrative market hotly contested with by the Venetians.
The ruins of a Genoese fortress positioned high on a clifftop above the entrance to the Balaklava Inlet are a popular tourist attraction and have recently become the stage for a Medieval festival. The fortress is a subject of Mickiewicz's penultimate poem in his 1826 cycle of Crimean Sonnets.
In 1475 Cembalo City was conquered by Turks and they rename it to Balyk-Yuva (Fish's Nest) which subsequently became Balaklava.
During the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, the Russian troops invaded Crimea in 1771. Thirteen years later, Crimea was definitively annexed by the Russian Empire. After that, Crimean Tatar and Turkish population was forcefully replaced by Greek Orthodox people from the Archipelago.[citation needed]
In 1787 the city was visited by Catherine the Great.
The town became famous for the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War thanks to the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, a British cavalry charge due to a misunderstanding sent up a valley strongly held on three sides by the Russians, in which about 250 men were killed or wounded, and over 400 horses lost, effectively reducing the size of the mounted brigade by two thirds and destroying some of the finest light cavalry in the world to no military purpose.The British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson immortalized the battle in verse in his Charge of the Light Brigade.
The balaclava, a tight knitted garment covering the whole head and neck with holes for the eyes and mouth, also takes its name from this settlement, where soldiers first wore them. Also numerous towns founded in English-speaking countries in later parts of the 19th Century were named Balaklava (see Balaklava (disambiguation)).
During the Second World War, Balaklava was the southernmost point in the Soviet-German lines.[citation needed]
In 1954 Balaklava, together with the whole Crimea, passed from Russia to Ukraine. In 1957 it was formally incorporated into the municipal borders of Sevastopol by the Soviet government and lost city status. It became part of the independent state of Ukraine in 1991. Today there are over 50 monuments in the town dedicated to the remembrance of military valour in past wars, including the Great Patriotic War, the Crimean War and the Russian Civil War.[citation needed]
Since internationally unrecognised 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Balaklava, along with rest of Crimea, is administered by Russia. In 2019 Russian authorities granted Balaklava status of a city within Sevastopol[5][6].
One of the monuments is an underground, formerly classified submarine base that was operational until 1993. The base was said to be virtually indestructible and designed to survive a direct atomic impact. During that period, Balaklava was one of the most secret residential areas in the Soviet Union. Almost the entire population of Balaklava at one time worked at the base; even family members could not visit the town of Balaklava without a good reason and proper identification. The base remained operational after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 until 1993 when the decommissioning process started. This process saw the removal of the warheads and low-yield torpedoes. In 1996, the last Russian submarine left the base. The base has since been opened to the public as the Naval museum complex Balaklava.
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215 651 8329 or go to We deliver and plant nursery stock as well as have mineral fossile and artifact hunting on our ranches. Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past08.10.09 This view of a rock called Block Island, the largest meteorite yet found on Mars, comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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This iron-nickel meteorite found near Fort Stockton, Texas, in 1952 shows a surface texture similar to some portions of the surface of an iron-nickel meteorite that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found on Mars in July 2009.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to get this view of the surface of a rock called Block Island during the 1,963rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Aug. 1, 2009).
Full image and caption PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history.
The rock, dubbed Block Island, is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the ground without disintegrating unless Mars had a much thicker atmosphere than it has now when the rock fell. An atmosphere slows the descent of meteorites. Additional studies also may provide clues about how weathering has affected the rock since it fell.
Two weeks ago, Opportunity had driven approximately 180 meters (600 feet) past the rock in a Mars region called Meridiani Planum. An image the rover had taken a few days earlier and stored was then transmitted back to Earth. The image showed the rock is approximately 60 centimeters (2 feet) in length, half that in height, and has a bluish tint that distinguishes it from other rocks in the area. The rover team decided to have Opportunity backtrack for a closer look, eventually touching Block Island with its robotic arm.
There's no question that it is an iron-nickel meteorite, said Ralf Gellert of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Gellert is the lead scientist for the rover's alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, an instrument on the arm used for identifying key elements in an object. We already investigated several spots that showed elemental variations on the surface. This might tell us if and how the metal was altered since it landed on Mars.
The microscopic imager on the arm revealed a distinctive triangular pattern in Block Island's surface texture, matching a pattern common in iron-nickel meteorites found on Earth.
Normally this pattern is exposed when the meteorite is cut, polished and etched with acid, said Tim McCoy, a rover team member from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Sometimes it shows up on the surface of meteorites that have been eroded by windblown sand in deserts, and that appears to be what we see with Block Island.
Opportunity found a smaller iron-nickel meteorite, called Heat Shield Rock, in late 2004. At about a half ton or more, Block Island is roughly 10 times as massive as Heat Shield Rock and several times too big to have landed intact without more braking than today's Martian atmosphere could provide.
Impact event
An impact event is a collision between celestial objects causing measurable effects. Impact events have physical consequences and have been found to regularly occur in planetary systems, though the most frequent involve asteroids, comets or meteoroids and have minimal impact. When large objects impact terrestrial planets like the Earth, there can be significant physical and biospheric consequences, though atmospheres mitigate many surface impacts through atmospheric entry. Impact structures are dominant landforms on many of the System's solid objects and present the strongest empirical evidence for their frequency and scale.
Impact events appear to have played a significant role in the evolution of the Solar System since its formation. Major impact events have significantly shaped Earth's history, have been implicated in the formation of the Earth–Moon system, the evolutionary history of life, the origin of water on Earth and several mass extinctions. Notable impact events include the Late Heavy Bombardment, which occurred early in history of the Earth–Moon system and the Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
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Defending Earth from Asteroids with Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are about a million near-Earth asteroids that are large enough to substantially damage or destroy a major city, as evidenced by the explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013 of a meteor no bigger than a large truck, which injured more than 1,000 people.
With current space technology, scientists know how to deflect the majority of hazardous near-Earth objects. But prevention is only possible if nations work together on detection and deflection. Learn about the risks, and the steps that are needed to avoid these potential natural disasters, from a group of astronauts and cosmonauts who recently helped develop recommendations to the United Nations for defending Earth from asteroid impact in this discussion.
This program, which was streamed live on the web, took place at the American Museum of Natural History on October 25, 2013, the same week the United Nations General Assembly adopted measures creating an international decision-making mechanism for planetary asteroid defense. The event was co-hosted by the American Museum of Natural History and the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).
Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, hosted the discussion with participants Thomas Jones, former NASA astronaut, senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and Association of Space Explorers (ASE) Near Earth Objects Committee member; Russell Schweickart, former NASA astronaut, ASE co-founder and Near Earth Objects Committee member, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the B612 Foundation; Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, former Romanian astronaut, ASE co-founder and Near Earth Objects Committee member, and vice president of the European International Institute for Risk, Security, and Communication Management; Edward Lu, former NASA astronaut, ASE Near Earth Objects Committee member, and co-founder, chairman, and CEO of the B612 Foundation; and Soichi Noguchi, engineer and JAXA astronaut, and ASE Near Earth Objects Committee member.
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Meteor crashed in Russia
The profusion of videos of the meteor that crashed in Russia on Friday should help scientists trace its origin. Based on the images, they can calculate its trajectory before reaching the Earth, reconstructing the orbit space rock that ran in the Solar System, which added a further analysis of the fragments found, could prove where it came from and how it was released in direction of our region of space. The reconstruction of the orbit will also allow astronomers to discover if he came to be seen by earlier detection programs near-Earth objects, but ended up going unnoticed. It will not be an easy job, however: the more than 45 000 meteorites (as are now called the pieces of meteors that reach the ground) officially recognized worldwide, until now scientists were only able to retell the story of 18.
- It will be a great thing if we can do that - recognized Philipp Heck, assistant curator of meteorites and studies of polar Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, in an interview with the magazine Popular Science.
According Heck observation are needed from at least three different locations and away in order to calculate the orbit of the meteor before it enters the atmosphere. This, however, should not be difficult to achieve, since the Russian meteor was recorded by cameras and cellphones of dozens and perhaps hundreds of motorists and pedestrians in the city of Chelyabinsk region, where he fell.
Heck, by the way, has already participated in a reenactment of the kind. He was part of a team of scientists who last December published an article telling the story of Sutter's Mill meteorite, which fell in April last year in Northern California. Then a meteor the size of a car and weighing about 50 tonnes entered the Earth's atmosphere at more than 100,000 km / h, exploding in a fireball in the air in a manner similar to that seen in Russia and spreading his pieces on the streets of suburbs of El Dorado County.
According to scientists, the object that caused the meteorite Sutter's Mill came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, having been thrown in the direction of the sun and flown out near Mercury and Venus before reaching Earth. Although most of the meteorites that fall on Earth originates belt, some are from Mars and very few come from the moon, but if Sutter's Mill researchers were even further by identifying the region exactly this field of space rocks believe was where he came from. This is because the study of fragments showed how long they were exposed to cosmic rays that pass through the Solar System, which allowed them to deduce the time that the meteor was created in collisions between asteroids belt, which is found in relatively recent history System Solar.
- There is a debris field known (in the asteroid belt) that may have been the source (the meteorite) - added Peter Jenniskens, an astronomer at the SETI Institute and lead author of the article about the meteorite Sutter's Mill.
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