It creates a virtual model of a large fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite – a REGNUM

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Chelyabinsk, 22 May 2015., 20:09 – REGNUM In Chelyabinsk created a three-dimensional virtual model of a large fragment of a meteorite, fallen to the region two years ago. Scanning celestial body became joint research scientists from Yekaterinburg and Finland. The work was carried out in Chelyabinsk regional museum, where it is stored more than 500 kilogramvy piece of meteorite, reports Correspondent May 22 IA REGNUM .

According to the website “Chelyabinsk.ru” next research conducted in the framework of the meteorite passing now in Miass III international conference “Meteorites, asteroids, comets.” The conference was organized to brainstorm about the young scientists and experts from a wide range of knowledge in the field of astronomy, earth sciences, space materials science and the results of recent studies of the meteorite fragments, environmental impacts on the Earth’s biosphere and problems of asteroid and comet hazard.

Note as previously reported by IA REGNUM , the interest in the Chelyabinsk meteorite large even after more than two years. The study found fragments of a celestial body are studying now, not only in scientific centers of Russia, but also in foreign countries. But the most surprising is that a meteorite except scientific interest is also interest in art. Not later than January 2015 fragment weighing 8 kilograms was brought to Moscow and exhibited at the Central House of Artists in the exposition “Undisturbed Russia.” All the time was an exhibition, a piece of the meteorite is protected as a valuable artifact, and the size of insurance amounted to 10 million rubles.

Recall that the meteorite fell into the lake Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region February 15, 2013. The shock wave knocked out the glass in the nearly 5 thousands of buildings and homes. Injuries varying degrees tyadesti received about a thousand people.

The search for the largest part of the meteorite that fell into the lake, 8 months and were unsuccessful. From the bottom it was raised by a fragment weighing about 600 kilograms. Now he is part of the permanent exhibition of the regional museum.

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