Chebarkul meteorite crater. Credit: Nikolaj Mel'nikov.

Chebarkul meteorite crater. Chelyabinsk meteorite fell exactly in this transition zone, which led to difficulties in interpretation. Photo ITAR-TASS Itar-Tass Photos Nov 6, 2013 · Jiri Borovicka This map shows the ground projection of the trajectory of the Chelyabinsk meteor, or bolide, and the location of the impact hole (Crater) in the ice of Lake Chebarkul on Feb. An initial proposal was to name the meteorite after Lake Chebarkul, where one of its major fragments impacted and made a 6-metre-wide (20 ft) hole in the frozen lake surface. Feb 15, 2013 · A large meteorite landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in Chelyabinsk region. Lake Chebarkul was quickly fingered as a potential landing site due to a gaping 8 meter hole discovered in its iced-over surface. Fragments recovered at later dates will not always be as unweathered as the first recovered fragments. Small meteorite fragments were found around the 8 m hole in the ice but divers did not find any stones on the lake bottom. Jul 27, 2017 · Final region Chebarkul Lake creating Hollow Crater like Lake Ice Hole Meteorite impact area: Chelyabinsk, Middle Center of Russia. The meteor's dramatic passing was witnessed in Yekaterinburg, 200km (125 miles) to the north, and in Kazakhstan, to Nov 7, 2013 · A hole in the frozen surface Lake Chebarkul made by the impact of a half-ton chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteorite on Feb. (D) Δ 17 O versus Fa molar percent of olivine in Chelyabinsk, compared with other ordinary chondrites of type H, L, and LL (38). Nov 7, 2013 · Security camera video showing the impact of the largest piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite striking Lake Chebarkul during the Feb. One of the first priorities after caring for the injured was to find the meteorite. Urals region where it struck on Friday 15 feb 2o13. The large fireball as mad scientists call him a "superbolide" observed on the morning of Feb. Credit: Nikolaj Mel'nikov. The meteor and meteorite are named after Chelyabinsk Oblast, over which the meteor exploded. 15, 2013, in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia, was caused by a relatively small asteroid approximately 19 meters in Oct 16, 2013 · Divers raised a coffee-table-size chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteorite from its muddy home at the bottom of Russia's Lake Chebarkul on Wednesday. Oct 23, 2019 · A picture of the interaction of the meteorite with the ice has developed following discussions at scientific conferences and after comparison of the data from the scientists who were involved in the search for the meteorite in the soils at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul. Nevertheless, brought to the surface the largest Chelyabinsk meteorite fragment confirmed that the crater was formed by the mechanical impact of the meteorite. . On February 15, a meteor came crashing into Russia’s Ural region, its shockwave causing damage throughout the area and bringing life to a screeching halt. 15, 2013 Russian fireball. Mar 5, 2013 · Preliminary geochemical analysis suggests that Chebarkul was a stony meteor with low iron content — a chondrite — made of material that had been partially melted and recrystallized from the Sep 18, 2025 · A stone may have broken the ice of Chebarkul Lake, located 70 km W of Chelyabinsk. 15, 2013. We now have video of this event. (C) Meteorite fragments recovered from the ice-covered lake Chebarkul. Most of the meteorite's mass is that of a moderately well-shocked ordinary chondrite with glass, veins, and a complicated isotopic profile due to multiple impact events over the last 4 billion years. rdur hvpjnov letepi t7 ek4p sxg bc fw4 lqc8 f4sta