Meteorite Pulled From Russian Lake Is One of World’s Biggest
http://world.time.com/2013/10/16/meteorite-pulled-from-russian-lake-one-of-worlds-biggest/?xid=rss-topstories

Eight months after a meteorite exploded over central Russia, divers have hauled a large chunk of space rock out of a lake, giving people a look at the extraterrestrial object that caused damage throughout the region. On February 15, a 55-feet (17 m) wide, 10,000-ton meteorite exploded over central Russia. When the rock hit the atmosphere, it caused a bright flash, and some residents said their first thought was that they had seen the start of a nuclear war. Thousands of small fragments fell throughout the region of Chelyabinsk, breaking windows and injuring more than nearly 1,500 people.

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That must be terrifying! And how awful to have your first thought as nuclear war :(

Divine Angel said:

That must be terrifying! And how awful to have your first thought as nuclear war :(

but now they know better, that it was just a rock burning up in earths upper atmosphere :)

I wonder how much vodka was consumed before this exercise:

The fragment was then pulled ashore and placed on top of a scale for weighing, an operation that quickly went wrong.

The rock broke up into at least three large pieces as it was lifted from the ground with the help of levers and ropes.

Then the scale itself broke, the moment it hit the 570kg (1,255lb) mark.

Spose it’s better than thinking “Oh look, meteorite!” and it actually being a nuke.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Divine Angel said:

That must be terrifying! And how awful to have your first thought as nuclear war :(

but now they know better, that it was just a rock burning up in earths upper atmosphere :)

Or, since they think they have easily survived this nuclear exchange, they are now very blasé about nuclear war being really bad, and think the whole Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty was a complete waste of time.

and injuring more than nearly 1,500 people.
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Some might be confused by this statement,

But obliviously the amount is 1500 and 17 people.

Oh, excellent. There was no news of a large meteorite found from the previous two large fireballs to hit the news so I had given up hope of this one.

> “One of the largest pieces of the meteor fell into Lake Chebarkul, tearing a massive hole in the ice. On Oct. 16, divers finally hauled the half-ton piece of space rock from 20 m of water.”

So, no crater. Why?