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In November 2013, a video from a security camera was released showing the impact of the fragment at the Chebarkul lake. This is the first recorded impact of a meteorite on video. From the measured time difference between the shadow generating meteor to the moment of impact, scientists calculated that this meteorite hit the ice at about 225 m/s ...
The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere. The descent of the meteor, visible as a brilliant superbolide in the morning sky, caused a ...
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai ), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. [1] [3] The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 ...
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UFO sightings in Russia. The following are some alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Russia : The Tunguska event of 1908, is considered to have been the explosion of a meteor, though some regard it as an explosion of a UFO. The Petrozavodsk phenomenon on September 20, 1977. In Usove in Soviet Ukraine, on October 4, 1982, a group ...
Pages in category "Meteorites found in Russia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The Sikhote-Alin meteorite is classified as an iron meteorite belonging to the meteorite group IIAB and with a coarse octahedrite structure. It is composed of approximately 93% iron, 5.9% nickel, 0.42% cobalt, 0.46% phosphorus, and 0.28% sulfur, with trace amounts of germanium and iridium. Minerals present include taenite, plessite, troilite ...