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Chelyabinsk meteorite flying over Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013 at about 9.20 a.m. local time time (7.20 a.m. Moscow time). After half a minute (32, 5 seconds) after entering the atmosphere, the meteorite collapsed, and its largest fragments, as originally reported, fell into area of Lake Chebarkul. Further research fragments of a meteorite of various sizes were found in several places of the Chelyabinsk region, the exact coordinates of some of scientists keep these places a secret. Subsequent Scientific Assessments the size and mass of the Chelyabinsk meteorite are as follows: diameter – seventeen to eighteen meters, mass – ten to eleven thousand tons At the time of writing, this article is undergoing Chelyabinsk meteorite in the international catalog meteorites under the name “Chelyabinsk” Blast wave from a meteorite collapsing in the atmosphere covered Chelyabinsk. IN as a result of its impact, a huge number of windows were broken in more than seven thousand buildings, as well as seriously damaged buildings Ural Lightning Ice Palace, Tractor Hockey Arena and warehouse of the Chelyabinsk zinc plant. More than 1600 people were injured. shattered glass, about 70 people were hospitalized. One a woman received a serious spinal injury, falling (probably from fright) from the stairs, and was transported by the Ministry of Emergencies for treatment in To Moscow. Fortunately, there were no dead. Due to the large quantity all city doctors were urgently called to the wounded in the hospital. IN the first minutes after the meteorite fall the Ministry of Emergency Situations considered versions plane crash and missile strike. On local channels let creeping line urging residents not to leave their homes without emergency. It soon became clear that it was a meteorite and the alarm for residents was canceled. Restore broken glass in It was mostly completed by the end of February. Numerous videos meteorite (its flight in the sky), including those made by automobile DVRs, began to appear on the Internet all through few minutes after his flight and became very popular not only in Russia, but also in other countries of the world. Foreign tourists began to contact Russian travel agencies with a request organize trips to the area of Lake Chebarkul. On the shores of the lake Chebarkul located rest houses and sanatoriums, and in the eponymous a city near the lake – hotels. Im sure You should expect an influx of tourists this year. At online auctions there were offers to sell fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, most of which are fraud.
On the evening of February 15, at a distance of about 28 (27.7) thousand kilometers from Earth a large asteroid 2012 DA14 flew in mass 130 thousand tons. Many internet users voiced in social networks version of the relationship of these two events (asteroid flight past Earth) and the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, suggesting that the meteorite was a satellite of the asteroid, detached from it and headed towards the Earth under the influence of the force of its attraction. However, the calculations of most scientists (including experts from NASA and ESA), deny the connection of these events with each other due to the difference trajectories of motion of these celestial bodies.
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Photos from open sources Alternative versions of a meteorite fall appearing in social networks, interpreted what happened as God’s anger and fall UFO, and the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said that it was test of secret american weapons. Some users a worldwide network suggested that the Russian military shot down meteorite. But in fact, the decision to launch air defense missiles takes significantly longer than half a minute that lasted meteorite flight in the atmosphere. And the most advanced air defense systems technically unable to bring down objects moving in the atmosphere with at a speed of 20 kilometers per second (upper bar – 5 kilometers in give me a sec). Many people are interested in the question of why the fall scientists did not know the Chelyabinsk meteorite in advance. Answer lies in the fact that modern tracking systems for meteorites focused on finding objects with a diameter not less than 100 meters. To track smaller celestial bodies additional funding and construction needed new observatories in different parts of the world.
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