Scientists have discovered a magnetic anomaly that will help look for fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite – Moskovsky Komsomolets

Experts suspect that they will find another large fragment

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Magnetic Lake map Chebarkul, where fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite fell in February 2013, reported the scientists of the Ural federal University. With this card experts hope to test their hypothesis that the bottom of the lake was another major fragment of the meteorite, which is to find failed.

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According to the calculations of scientists, they need a month to process the received data. After that, researchers will be able to confirm or deny appeared earlier suspicion that 500-pound cluster of meteorite material is located in an area of ​​study. Earlier, a similar idea has prompted experts magnetic anomaly previously detected in the three-year-old cards.

The probability that the new map will confirm the earlier suggestion put forward is about fifty percent, experts say. It is also possible that the source of the magnetic anomaly could be a meteorite, and any other object.

The wreckage of the Chelyabinsk meteorite fell to Earth February 15, 2013. Because of the shock waves of the cosmic body explosion in the atmosphere in a variety of buildings were shattered glass. Injured 1,613 people, and the material damage amounted to almost 500 thousand. This event sparked additional interest in research dedicated to the protection of the planet from the threat of the meteorite.

In this case, the fragments of the meteorite, dubbed “Chelyabinsk”, have also become the subject of intense study by many experts. Even after three years of study of the meteorite continued to bear fruit – for example, recently it was discovered an unusual carbon crystal, which can be a rare type of diamond.

The largest found to date fragments of a total mass greater than 650 kilograms It was raised from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul October 16, 2013.