NPR Remember that bus-sized meteor that stunned thousands and injured hundreds across Russia? Well what survived the incredible temperatures came crashing into Lake Chebarkul in central Russia and, today, divers dredged up a 1,255-pound chunk. Live footage showed a team pull out a 1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake after first wrapping it in a special covering and placing it on a metal sheet while it was still underwater. The fragment was then pulled ashore and placed on top of a scale for weighing, an operation that quickly went wrong.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:54:23 +0000
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