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Three-Tonne Meteorite Stolen In Russia
Moscow (AFP) Aug 10, 2007 Russian police were combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Friday for a three-tonne meteorite that has disappeared from under the nose of its keepers. The giant rock was stolen from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, news agency Interfax reported. "It winds up that it disappeared back in June, when the foundation was moving out of its old building," a police spokesman told the agency. "Our colleagues are establishing what got lost, where the rock is and why they only came to us about it now," he said. Foundation director Yury Lavbin brought the three-tonne rock to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called "Tunguska event" -- a mysterious mid-air explosion in Siberia in 1908 that was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Lavbin claimed at the time to have discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft during the expedition. Scientists continue to argue over the cause of the explosion, which flattened over 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of Siberian forest. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Asteroid and Comet Impact Danger To Earth - News and Science
Strange Lights The 2007 Aurigid Meteor Shower
Huntsville AL (MSFC) Aug 09, 2007Will they come, or will they not? That is the question. On Sept. 1, 2007, a flurry of bright and oddly-colored meteors might-emphasis on might--come streaming out of the constellation Auriga, putting on a beautiful early morning show for sky watchers in western North America: sky map. The source of the putative shower is Comet Kiess (C/1911 N1), a mysterious "long-period comet" that has visited the inner solar system only twice in the past two thousand years. |
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