[meteorite-list] Fragment of Chelyabinsk Meteor To Go on Display in Vienna

[Mendy Ouzillou]

Are you kidding me?

Since when is 387g the largest surviving chunk?

International bidding war? On eBay maybe.


 
Mendy Ouzillou


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> http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2014-02-11/50457/Largest_surviving_fragment_of_Chelyabinsk_meteor_to_go_on_display_in_Vienna
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> Largest surviving fragment of Chelyabinsk meteor to go on display in Vienna
> Austrian Times
> February 11, 2014
> 
> The spectacular meteorite which blew up over the earth after entering 
> the atmosphere at an incredible 60 times the speed of sound before exploding 
> in a ball of light brighter than the sun is to be put on display at Vienna's 
> 
> National History Museum this month.
> 
> Only small parts of the meteorite that exploded 20 miles above the ground 
> in Chelyabinsk, in Russia were left and the largest - a 387g chunk - has 
> been snapped up by the Austrian museum in an international bidding war. 
> It will now go on display in Vienna from 15th February this year.
> 
> The meteorite caused extensive damage and injured around 1,500 people 
> when it exploded with the force of 500 kilotons of TNT, which was 20-30 
> times more energy than was released from the atomic bomb detonated at 
> Hiroshima.
> 
> Treasure hunters immediately descended on the region to look for fragments 
> and the Vienna National History Museum was able to acquire the chunk now 
> going on display to add to its meteorite collection.
> 
> The object was undetected before its atmospheric entry and its explosion 
> created panic among local residents. About 1,500 people were injured seriously 
> enough to seek medical treatment.
> 
> All of the injuries were due to indirect effects rather than the meteor 
> itself, mainly from broken glass from windows that were blown in when 
> the shock wave arrived, minutes after the explosive flash.
> 
> In total, some 7,200 buildings in six cities across the region were damaged 
> by the explosion's shock wave.
> 
> With an estimated initial mass of about 12,000 to 13,000 metric tonnes 
> and about 20 metres in size, it is the largest known natural object to 
> have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event that destroyed 
> 
> a wide, remote, forested area of Siberia.
> 
> The Chelyabinsk meteor is also the only meteor confirmed to have resulted 
> in a large number of injuries.
> 
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