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  2. Chelyabinsk meteorite - Wikipedia

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    Andrey Breyvichko claimed to have founded a "Church of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite" in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. [ 19 ] [ 23 ] Breyvichko opposes the operation to expose the meteorite fragment in a museum, claiming that only "psychic priests" of his church are qualified to decode and handle the celestial body, which they want to be placed ...

  3. 1860 Great Meteor - Wikipedia

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    The 1860 Great Meteor procession occurred on July 20, 1860. It was an extremely rare meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across the United States. [1] [2]American landscape painter Frederic Church saw and painted a spectacular string of fireball meteors across the Catskill evening sky, an extremely rare Earth-grazing meteor procession.

  4. Chelyabinsk meteor - Wikipedia

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    In November 2013, a video from a security camera was released showing the impact of the fragment at the Chebarkul lake. [6] [97] This is the first recorded impact of a meteorite on video. From the measured time difference between the shadow generating meteor to the moment of impact, scientists calculated that this meteorite hit the ice at about ...

  5. Category:Meteorites found in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Chelyabinsk meteor; Chelyabinsk meteorite; Chinga meteorite; Collection of meteorites in the National Museum of Brazil; D. Dronino meteorite; K. Kainsaz meteorite;

  6. 21088 Chelyabinsk - Wikipedia

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    21088 Chelyabinsk (provisional designation 1992 BL 2) is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 January 1992, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at ESO 's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.

  7. 1783 Great Meteor - Wikipedia

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    The event occurred between 21:15 and 21:30 on 18 August 1783, a clear, dry night. Analysis of observations has indicated that the meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over the North Sea, before passing over the east coast of Scotland and England and the English Channel; it finally broke up, after a passage within the atmosphere of around a thousand miles (around 1600 km), over south-western ...

  8. 1913 Great Meteor Procession - Wikipedia

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    On February 9, 1913, a significant meteoric phenomenon was reported from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, Bermuda, and from many ships at sea as far south as Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 11,000 km (7,000 miles), and becoming known as the Great Meteor Procession of 1913.

  9. Sikhote-Alin meteorite - Wikipedia

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    The Sikhote-Alin meteorite is classified as an iron meteorite belonging to the meteorite group IIAB and with a coarse octahedrite structure. It is composed of approximately 93% iron , 5.9% nickel , 0.42% cobalt , 0.46% phosphorus , and 0.28% sulfur , with trace amounts of germanium and iridium .