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by vdinets
Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:27 am
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: Large meteor, possible meteorite near Chelyabinsk, Russia
Replies: 105
Views: 98837

Re: Large meteor, possible meteorite near Chelyabinsk, Russi

More news from Chelyabinsk (from lenta.ru, a Russian news website): http://cdn.lenta.ru/images/0000/0298/000002981580/detail_1360941630.jpg On a more serious note, it is interesting (although perhaps meaningless) that a very similar event took place in exactly the same region in 1941 (Katavsky bolid...
by vdinets
Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:13 pm
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: Large meteor, possible meteorite near Chelyabinsk, Russia
Replies: 105
Views: 98837

Re: Large meteor, possible meteorite near Chelyabinsk, Russi

Russia does, indeed, have a major problem with pseudoscience (and a much greater problem with government-enforced religion), but it is worth noting that in all those videos, people behind the cameras immediately call it a meteorite rather than a UFO or the chariot of St. Nicholas. For those studying...