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Russia halts search for meteorite in stricken region
Chelyabinsk, Russia (AFP) Feb 17, 2013
Russian authorities halted their search Sunday for the meteorite that spectacularly struck the Urals last week, leaving about 1,200 people injured and damaging several thousand buildings. The 10-tonne space rock streaked over the Chelyabinsk region in central Russia in a blinding fireball on Friday just as the world was braced for a close encounter with a large asteroid. Residents of Chelyabinsk, a city of 1.1 million and the centre of Russia's heavy industry, were struggling to pick up the piec ... read more

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NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly

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