Half-tonne Chelyabinsk meteorite chunk pulled from Russian lake
October 13, 2013 CBC News
Recently, a massive meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia and injured more than 1,100 people. When the meteor exploded, it is estimated that it costed $33 million in damage and that the meteor was 20 meters in diameter and 11,000 tonnes. There are many videos of this meteor blasting through the sky that have been taken by citizens of Russia and the videos posted on the internet have gotten extremely popular. A 570kg chunk of the meteorite was recovered from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul. The rock was so heavy that it broke the scale used to weigh it and later on the rock broke into three pieces while being weighed.
I think that it's really interesting how suddenly, out of nowhere, a meteorite can fall out of the sky and cause millions of dollars of damage. This incident was very rare and interesting and I'll admit that I thought the videos on YouTube were really cool. This article makes me wonder if bigger objects will hit the Earth and end up causing a big problem in the future. We'll definitely find out in due time.
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