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Russian scientists track down fragments of Urals meteor

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Russian scientists track down fragments of Urals meteor

CHEBARKUL, Russia — After a brilliant flash illuminated the sky on Friday morning like a second sun, Alyona V. Borchininova and several others in this run-down small town in the Siberian wilderness wandered outside, confused and curious.

A meteor flared through the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday, triggering an atomic bomb-sized shock wave that injured more than a thousand people, blew out windows and caused some Russians to dread

Scientists confirmed today the first recovered fragments of the giant meteor that exploded over this region on Friday, according to Russian media. The fragments were found on the edge of a giant hole in a frozen lake in this tiny village, thought to

Russia's Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave hurt several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather.

Russians standing near the hole in the ice that is reportedly the site of a meteorite Sergei Ilnitsky/European Pressphoto Agency Russians standing near the hole in the ice that is reportedly the site of a meteorite fall, on the frozen Chebarkul Lake

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