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Divers explored the bottom of Lake Chebarkul and found in silt several funnels, where, presumably, large splinters of a meteorite. However, it was not possible to consider the fragments themselves due to too thick – about three meters – a layer of silt. About ITAR-TASS said a spokeswoman for the city administration Chebarkul Lyubov Rudometova. February 28 from Yekaterinburg to Chebarkul will arrive specialists who will conduct a magnetic survey of the lake day. “Shooting will be held all day, the results may be in the evening, “said Victor, a member of the meteorite committee of the RAS Grokhovsky. At the same time, he called media reports about a fragment weighing about half a ton of fantasy. “After the shoot, we can do concrete conclusions, “the academician promised. Meanwhile, in the city A special headquarters for the search for meteorite fragments has been created and is operating. Scientists from Yekaterinburg have already managed to find several, the most the largest of them – weighing more than 1 kg. Meteor shower was recorded in the morning of February 15 in five regions of Russia: Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan regions, as well as in Bashkiria. More than one and a half thousand people were affected, including 311 children. Material damage from meteor shower, according to preliminary Estimated to have exceeded 1 billion rubles.
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