[meteorite-list] Attempts to Retrieve Meteorite Pieces from Lake Chebarkul

[Ron Baalke]

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/visitor-from-outer-space-to-be-hauled-out-of-russian-lake/

Visitor from outer space to be hauled out of Russian lake
The Siberian Times 
04 August 2013

The fireball sparked panic as it flew over the Ural Mountains, shattering 
glass in cities, wounding well over 1,000, amid warnings that 'doomsday' 
had arrived.

Now sizeable chunks of this cosmic guest are to be pulled out of Lake 
Chebarkul, in Chelyabinsk region, where they fell in February this year. 
They will give scientists a special insight into the space rock that so 
suddenly and dramatically struck Western Siberia. 

A large lump of meteorite - perhaps the biggest - is reported resting 
in silt some 50 metres from the spot it made an icy hole in the murky 
lake. 

'The operation will be held in the muddy waters of the lake in conditions 
of zero visibility,' reported Itar-Tass, citing Alexander Galich, the 
regional minister of radiation and ecological security. 

'Divers will have to use special equipment. The local authorities will 
engage professional divers from the regional rescue services and from 
other specialised organizations.'

Sergei Zakharov, of the geography department of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical 
University, said: 'We have established jointly with researchers from the 
Charles University in Prague that after falling into the lake the meteorite 
struck against the ice from below and only then sank. 

'It is not ruled out that it might have broken into pieces'.