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February 28, 2013

Meteorite's Powerful Blast Due to Space Collisions
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 28, 2013
The powerful blast of a meteorite above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk was probably caused by its previous "space collisions" with other celestial bodies, said Professor Erik Galimov of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry. Fragments of the meteorite were taken to the institute's lab on Monday. "[The meteorite] experienced collisions in space before entering the atmosphere. Probably, this caused its disintegration, or fragmentation, which later resulted in such a p ... read more

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