Scientists claim to have recovered meteorite fragments

MOSCOW, YEKATERINBURG Russian scientists are saying that they have recovered the remains of a meteorite that on Friday exposed over the Ural Mountains, injuring over 1,200 people. Scientists claim to have recovered meteorite fragments However, despite the intensive search over the weekend of a frozen lake in the area where a large hole in the ice was spotted, the authorities said that the divers did not manage to recover any of its pieces. But the Russian Academy of Sciences said late on Sunday that chemical analyses carried out yesterday on unusual rocks found nearby proved that they came from space. (Beta/AP) "We claim that parts of the substance that our expedition found near Lake Chebarkul contains meteorite composition," Viktor Grokhovski told RIA Novosti. At the same time, the Urals Federal University of Urals in Yekaterinburg posted a statement on its website along with a photograph of a person holding a piece of a porous-looking black rock. "This meteorite belongs to the chondrite class," the university said, and added that it would "most likely be named the Chebarkul Meteorite". A researcher touches a piece of a meteorite in a laboratory in Yekaterinburg (Beta/AP) Tanjug

Scientists claim to have recovered meteorite fragments

However, despite the intensive search over the weekend of a frozen lake in the area where a large hole in the ice was spotted, the authorities said that the divers did not manage to recover any of its pieces.

But the Russian Academy of Sciences said late on Sunday that chemical analyses carried out yesterday on unusual rocks found nearby proved that they came from space. "We claim that parts of the substance that our expedition found near Lake Chebarkul contains meteorite composition," Viktor Grokhovski told RIA Novosti.

At the same time, the Urals Federal University of Urals in Yekaterinburg posted a statement on its website along with a photograph of a person holding a piece of a porous-looking black rock.

"This meteorite belongs to the chondrite class," the university said, and added that it would "most likely be named the Chebarkul Meteorite".