A photo from open sources
The Ministry of Emergency Situations are looking for the remains of a fallen car, and experts have already estimated explosion power. Divers explore Lake Chebarkul in Chelyabinsk areas where the debris of yesterday’s meteorite supposedly fell. In addition, experts will inspect all places of the alleged fall. debris. “In the near future, diving operations will begin on Lake Chebarkul. A group of six divers examines the aquatic water area for meteorite fragments, “the official said representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Irina Rossius. According to her, diving works will last about four hours. There is no evidence yet that the debris of a meteorite was really found somewhere. “Experts They study all the places of a possible meteorite fall. But report that found fragments and evidence that these are fragments of the fallen there’s no meteorite, “said Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov today. He added that all messages of local residents about places are checked falling splinters. According to the minister, in addition to Lake Chebarkul, there are three more points of their probable fall, but he did not specify which exactly. Puchkov added that the Ministry of Emergencies will make the necessary conclusions. By tonight in the Chelyabinsk region will be All potentially dangerous objects were examined. “We must have a clear picture and understand if there is a problem or not, “said official. According to him, the Ministry of Emergencies will also prepare to respond to the repetition of such cases in the future and together with the RAS will monitoring of large fireballs entering the atmosphere. True how Puchkov admitted to track small cosmic bodies flying with high speed, while impossible. “The best are working on this topic. the minds of mankind, “he assured. Recall, on the eve of the Urals fell meteorite, causing significant damage. According to updated data Ministry of Health, about 1.1 thousand people were affected, mainly from cuts with broken glass (the area of broken glass was 200 thousand square meters meters). According to the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, the total amount of damage is estimated at 1 billion rubles. and can grow even more, because “a lot of buildings shook.” Enterprising citizens, meanwhile, have already opened the debris trade a meteorite, and some even allegedly broke glass in themselves, hoping to replace them with euro-windows for free. True, as reported today, Yurevich, nobody actually broke glass – this information turned out to be another journalistic duck. Fallen Data meteorite, meanwhile, has been clarified. NASA reported that it was a car with a diameter of 17 m and a weight of about 10 thousand tons. Blast power at its collision with the Earth it amounted to 500 kilotons (30 times more powerful than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945). Earlier experts gave much more modest estimates of the size of the meteorite and explosion power. Fortunately, most of the space guest burned in the atmosphere and exploded there. “Chelyabinsk car looks the most powerful in the list of four Russian superbolids, observed in the 21st century. The first was Vitimsky (night of September 25 2002), the second – Komi car on October 17, 2009, the third – Osinsky car on March 1, 2011 in the Irkutsk region. Fourth and the most powerful of them, of course, should be called Chelyabinsk car February 15, 2013 “, – the director writes on his blog Astronomical Observatory of the Irkutsk State University Sergey Yazev. He added that “we ran into the rarest case of observing a superbolid in a densely populated terrain. ”
Nikolay ALEXANDROV
Strange Meteorite
Kirill ROZHKOV
A photo from open sources A meteorite fell in Chelyabinsk – how some scientists believe the 2012 DA14 asteroid fragment, which tonight approached the Earth. As a result of a meteorite attack three thousand buildings were damaged, and the total area knocked out in the city glass blast amounted to more than a hundred thousand square meters.
Mass of the celestial body, as reported by the Center for Public Relations Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, estimated at about 50 tons. Speed s which the car was approaching Chelyabinsk, was about 30 km / second.
Most Russians have shown a funny reaction what happened – the most enterprising have already opened up brisk trading meteorite pieces on the Internet, the police hid his head in the sand, and the federal television channel in his story placed Chelyabinsk in a burning funnel.
Below is a short list of the strangest, wildest and simplest amazing moments of today.
Harsh business
In total, three fragments of a meteorite have been found in the territory of the region, two – in Chebarkul, one – in the Zlatoust district, reported to Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is much less than the number of Sell Chip ads. meteorite, “appeared on the web today. Prices range from 300 rub. up to half a million.
“Selling a meteorite fragment, treats cancer, AIDS and prostate. Improves grades at school and helps pass the session, “- resident Chelyabinsk Eugene offers it for only 300 thousand rubles.
Another popular way to earn extraordinary incident told RIA “Novosti” a source in law enforcement organs. “Many wise men have already begun, as the people say, to hunt on the consequences of a fallen meteorite: they break glass in their houses in the hope of compensation in the form of new euro-windows, ” in the Chelyabinsk State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Despite the fact that the head of the Chelyabinsk administration has already promised that broken glass will be replaced by management companies free of charge, local businessmen have already inflated prices for work on glazing several times.
And we knew
The Russian Ministry of Defense a few days before the state of emergency over Chelyabinsk knew about the approaching meteorite, meanwhile, Izvestia reported with reference to a source in the military department. The military did not take measures because they believed that “the body will burn in the atmosphere.” “What, needed to get around everyone? “, – the journalists are ironic, recalling the famous phrase of the Krasnodar governor Alexander Tkachev.
“Residents of Chelyabinsk are already dismantling superpowers, hurry up
In general, Chelyabinsk residents remain calm. On the contrary, Chelyabinsk car – the main topic for jokes today among users The Internet.
@Meteor_chel Residents of the meteorite watched in horror as they approached Chelyabinsk.
@Zt_butrin Theotokos! Well you, mother of God, give. Where is Chelyabinsk, and where is the Kremlin – take a look at the map! She can see from above, yeah.
@morketolog: Idea for a startup: an application or script that remove Chelyabinsk from the news feed.
@gosiabem Laugh, laugh … Maybe this is a new method of reference war: first throw some rubbish from the sky, and then dump it’s on a meteorite. And then with whom to fight?
The journalists of Channel One, who passed off as personnel, made a great joke. from the scene a photo of a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan. “The area is sparsely populated. You see a funnel, which is there formed, “- said the presenter of the news release. Currently This news has been removed from the channel’s website.
Unexpected slack was given by employees of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. Bodies Interior Ministry had to take urgent measures to prevent panic among personnel due to meteor shower, reported reporters chief of operations management Viktor Rakitin.
Theory of the American Conspiracy
Meanwhile, on the website of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring still hangs a message that in the Chelyabinsk region, a UFO landed. LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky even believes that in the Chelyabinsk region did not fall meteorite – MP is sure that “Americans are experiencing new weapon. ”
“Kerry wanted to warn on Monday, was looking for Lavrov. Wanted warn that there will be such a provocation, it can touch and Russia. Nothing ever falls anywhere. Cosmos is the universe there their laws, nothing will ever fall there, ”said the leader of the LDPR. – When they fall, people do it. People are arsonists and provocateurs. ”
Note in the Russian Orthodox Church in the divine origin of the celestial body is not believe, however, the former head of the press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky urged to thank God for that the meteorite did not fall in the settlements. “The area is full large, small cities and towns. And by the grace of God it is not collapsed on the heads and people only suffered from fragments and a blast wave, “he told RIA Novosti.
It’s nervous
A strange reaction to the fall of a meteorite was demonstrated Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. He found out what happened being at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum. “I watched Today, a meteor shower rained over the Chelyabinsk region. It is still one symbol of our forum, “said Medvedev.
Divers could not detect meteorite debris in the lake Chebarkul
A photo from open sources
Divers did not find meteorite fragments on alleged the place of their fall in the Chebarkul lake of the Chelyabinsk region. About This was reported by the governor of the region Mikhail Yurevich. Previously official representative of EMERCOM of Russia Irina Rossius said that a group of of six divers examines Lake Chebarkul for fragments meteorite. “As far as I know, divers were looking for in the lake and nothing found, “Yurevich told reporters. He expressed doubt that remnants of a meteorite will find. “I think it’s unlikely, because, rather total, they (fragments) burned. Hard to say. Still will continue look, “- said the head of the region. On Friday in the Urals a meteorite fell – PE affected residents of Tyumen, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk regions, as well as the northern territories of Kazakhstan. The main damage was recorded in the Chelyabinsk region, in many glass is broken in buildings. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1.2 suffered thousands of people. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, from cuts by glass fragments 1,145 people suffered, of which 50 were hospitalized.
Time Russia Chelyabinsk
