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Hi friends!
We all heard the news about the meteorite that exploded over Oral Russia this week.
So what the meteorites are and did if any fall on Earth before, any where?
Here are samples of some that been found fallen on Earth.
Also we must not be surprised that the ancient meteorites were the original building blocks of all rocky planets and moons. Many of them are still hanging round, and can be seen in the dark clean night shooting through the Skye.
Are they truly flying rocks with the same minerals that are on Earth.
Let us see.
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Russian Meteor Blast 'Heard' Around the WorldUp to 11 sensors in Greenland, Africa, Kamchatka and other far-flung regions detected the Russian meteor blast's infra sound.Read More »
How Common Are Meteor Strikes?
A meteorite has fallen�to Earth in Russia overnight—and the fall-out, including 500 causalities, is pretty bad. But you might not realize that giant space rocks crash into Earth all the time.
Speaking to AP, Addi Bischoff, a mineralogist at the University of Muenster in Germany, explained that there are typically five to ten meteorite strikes around Earth�per year. And even ones as big as the one which just shook Russia enter out atmosphere once every five years.
The reason they go unreported? Well, there's a lot of empty space around the planet: oceans, ice caps, deserts and more, where there's just nobody there to see 'em fall. Russia was just very, very unlucky. [AP]
This Is the Russian Meteor Impact Site
Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of them pictured here. The other one is near Zlatoust, a town 80 kilometers northwest of Chelyabinsk.
Scientists and police have recovered small black fragments incrusted in the ice. They believe they are part of the meteor's debris.
A meteor exploded over Russia�tonight, on the eve of the�150-foot asteroid 2012 DA14 flyby. These are two coincidental events with no connection whatsoever, say European Space Agency astronomers.
The Russian Academy of Sciences has estimated that the meteorite weighed about 10 tons and entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000 mph, shattering about 18-32 miles above ground.