Russian SCUBA Divers Find Meteor
The divers used powerful lights and probes to uncover several potential sites where meteorite fragments may have landed. On Thursday, a team from Ekaterinburg will join in the search by conducting a magnetic survey of the prospect locations; the initial results could be ready as early as that evening. Some fragments of the meteorite were retrieved in the Chelyabinsk region, which endured the bulk of the spectacular cosmic event.
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Divers searching Chebarkul Lake in Russia’s Urals region have found several craters that may be the impact zones of fragments of the now-famous meteorite that exploded over the area on Feuary 15.
The underwater hunt for the rare stones was hampered by coldweather and light-obstructing mud stirred up from the bottom. Thedivers used powerful lights and probes to uncover several potentialsites where meteorite fragments may have landed.
On Thursday, a team from Ekaterinburg will join in the search byconducting a magnetic survey of the prospect locations; the initialresults could be ready as early as that evening.
Some fragments of the meteorite were retrieved in theChelyabinsk region, which endured the bulk of the spectacularcosmic event. The biggest meteorite chunk discovered was about 1kilogram. It is hoped that the fragments inside the lake could bemuch bigger, weighing dozens of kilograms.
Via rt.com
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