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Metropolitan experts showed fragments of a fireball, who exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk and scared the inhabitants of the whole cities. The fragments brought to Moscow by plane, so that specialists answered the question: is it a meteorite or something else? To Moscow samples of an unidentified cosmic body were delivered by plane, which collapsed this Friday in Chelyabinsk, left behind great destruction and injured more than a thousand citizens. Shards at all small, the largest in diameter reaches three millimeters and weighs about seven grams, which is a lot for such a tiny size. Apparently, the reason is high density. It is already known that radiation the background of these fragments does not exceed the norm, it remains to understand, a meteorite is or a fragment of another origin? Specialists promise to answer this issue as soon as possible, reports NTV.Ru. Fire fall the car was incredibly bright, and for many very scary event. Unidentified luminous object appearing in the sky above Chelyabinsk, called a meteorite, which in diameter reached 17 meters and raced at a speed of 54 thousand kilometers per hour.
He reached the Earth in 32 seconds, leaving behind a long trail, and shattered into small parts. His fragments were searched in Chebarkul, and Zlatoust regions of the Chelyabinsk region. Meteor shower disfigured Chelyabinsk, thousands of houses were left without windows, more than 1200 people were hospitalized. Space attack felt on themselves and residents of the Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan regions and Bashkiria, but, unlike the Chelyabinsk citizens, they escaped a little fright.
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