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RE: Altai Meteor

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Russian social science and research expedition Kosmopoisk has sent four meteorite fragments found in Altai to a Moscow laboratory.
Research, carried out in field, indicated that there was a high probability that two stones out of four are genuine meteorite fragments. The expedition found a meteorite crater 1.5 kilometres away from their camp, but bad weather prevented them from carrying out a detailed study of the crater.
Currently the group consists of eight members, and two more groups are combing out neighbouring areas. Local schoolchildren are also taking part in a search for meteorites together with scientific groups.

Source: RIA Novosti

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The search expedition made its compound in a village of Kayaushka in the Rodinsky district. The meteorites trajectory has been calculated, and booklets titled "The Altai Meteorite" have been circulated among the volunteers.
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A group of Russian researchers looking for a meteorite that fell in January in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia has found an extraterrestrial substance which could be meteorite fragments, a coordinator said Monday.

"We have collected about 50 samples, and vitreous threads (traces of comet substance) were discovered in the first of them using a microscope. We will reach the meteorite site in a few days, but rocks which are probably meteorite fragments have already been found" - Vadim Chernobrov, Kosmopoisk (space search).

He said only laboratory testing could establish the rocks' origin, adding that there were many volunteers involved in the operation from Moscow, Novosibirsk, Kostroma and local areas. All the finds will be given to a museum.
Earlier, it was reported that January 10, local motorists and residents witnessed the impact of a fiery ball, which eventually ended in a loud sound resembling an explosion.

"Witnesses called us. This must have been a meteorite" - Natalya Pavlova, senior scientist from the Barnaul planetarium.

Source: RIA Novosti

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In Altaisky Krai scientists are searching for meteorite, which fell from the sky not long ago. Barnaul planetarium is receiving a great number of telephone calls from people, who have seen the fireball falling.
Natalia Pavlova, research fellow of Barnaul planetarium, said that on 10 January many people have observed a fireball falling down and making a loud noise.

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