[meteorite-list] Attempts to Retrieve Meteorite Pieces from Lake Chebarkul

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:20:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201308141920.r7EJKh8E015565_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/visitor-from-outer-space-to-be-hauled-out-of-russian-lake/

Visitor from outer space to be hauled out of Russian lake
The Siberian Times
04 August 2013

The fireball sparked panic as it flew over the Ural Mountains, shattering
glass in cities, wounding well over 1,000, amid warnings that 'doomsday'
had arrived.

Now sizeable chunks of this cosmic guest are to be pulled out of Lake
Chebarkul, in Chelyabinsk region, where they fell in February this year.
They will give scientists a special insight into the space rock that so
suddenly and dramatically struck Western Siberia.

A large lump of meteorite - perhaps the biggest - is reported resting
in silt some 50 metres from the spot it made an icy hole in the murky
lake.

'The operation will be held in the muddy waters of the lake in conditions
of zero visibility,' reported Itar-Tass, citing Alexander Galich, the
regional minister of radiation and ecological security.

'Divers will have to use special equipment. The local authorities will
engage professional divers from the regional rescue services and from
other specialised organizations.'

Sergei Zakharov, of the geography department of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical
University, said: 'We have established jointly with researchers from the
Charles University in Prague that after falling into the lake the meteorite
struck against the ice from below and only then sank.

'It is not ruled out that it might have broken into pieces'.
Received on Wed 14 Aug 2013 03:20:43 PM PDT


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