Divers Recover Presumed Superchunk Of Russian Meteor From Lake Chebarkul

Fastcompany ^ | 10/16/2013

[Freelance Warrior]

The fragment is so large that divers have been unable to lift it. Instead, it's been dragged along the bottom of the lake on a metal sheet. At 1,257 pounds--that's 570 kilos--It will be almost as big as the Holsinger meteorite, which landed in Arizona 50,000 years ago, and broke the scales when it was weighed earlier today. The rock will be tested to verify that it is from space and not from somewhere more mundane.

[Freelance Warrior]

RT video

[SwankyC]

If I’m not mistaken, the take-away from this story is, ‘oooh look, the Russians cant even lift 1200 lbs off a lake floor.’

[Raycpa]

The earth is mundane?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

mun·dane

adjective
1.
lacking interest or excitement; dull.
“seeking a way out of his mundane, humdrum existence”
synonyms: humdrum, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, tiresome, wearisome, unexciting, uninteresting, uninvolving, uneventful, unvarying, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, workaday; More
antonyms: extraordinary, imaginative

2.
of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.
“the boundaries of the mundane world”
synonyms: earthly, worldly, terrestrial, material, temporal, secular, areligious; More

[Drawsing]

Another take-away is the word “superchunk”

Good name for a rock band?

World record javelin throw?

Fattest man in the world?

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

That there’s a really big space peanut!

[count-your-change]

“........ which landed in Arizona 50,000 years ago, and broke the scales when it was weighed earlier today.”

I didn’t know the Arizona object was ever recovered and now I see it was weighed today.

[X-spurt]

No the take-away of this story will be that this is fake.

Think about it. First - a meteor this size would have made a hell of an impact, probably emptying the lake. Second - had this occurred before recorded history, the thing would likely been long submerged under lots of mud, not laying on the lake floor. Third - upon impact they usually break up.

Another possible “Russian” explanation could be this was recent, but it landed slowly, did not make the news and was just waiting on the lake floor like a BOULDER.

The Russians have genetic propensity for make outlandish claims of the biggest, fastest or whatever, of course without any independent non-Russian confirmation.

[Resolute Conservative]

We used to be able to pick up their submarines.

[rarestia]

Good name for a rock band?

They already exist albeit more indie than rock:

Superchunk

[Kirkwood]

Looks like a meteorite to me. Go to the 41 minute mark on the video.

[Freelance Warrior]

“........ which landed in Arizona 50,000 years ago, and broke the scales when it was weighed earlier today.” I didn’t know the Arizona object was ever recovered and now I see it was weighed today.

This site took an hour to translate the news from Russian, so you can see such speed's drawbacks...

[Freelance Warrior]

First - a meteor this size would have made a hell of an impact, probably emptying the lake.

So it did in February. Chelyabinsk meteor

Second - had this occurred before recorded history, the thing would likely been long submerged under lots of mud, not laying on the lake floor.

This is not the case.

Third - upon impact they usually break up

They believe it exploded while airborne.

The Russians have genetic propensity for make outlandish claims of the biggest, fastest or whatever, of course without any independent non-Russian confirmation

The fragment is reported as 'probable piece of the meteor' so I see no reason to accuse Russians of all these things in the case. It was a natural phenomen, and no advance notice had been sent to invite international public on time.

[Freelance Warrior]

The earth is mundane?

The rock is mundane if it's of earthly origin.

[SwankyC]

Good name for a rock band?

She's super chunk super chunk, she's supaah chunkayyyy. LMAO!

[dangus]

Literally. The french word for “Earth” is “Monde,” and it’s pronounced, “Mund.”

[dfwgator]

From the Latin “Mundi”.

[Raycpa]

Thanks for the language lessons.

I got the impression that the writer considered a lifeless rock from space as more exciting than the rock from space that we are living on. The writer (or translator) was apparently using a precise word rather than making a value judgement.

Thanks again.

[dangus]

It’s just another manic Mundi.
I wish I was Sunni.
‘Cause that’s so Fundy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Freelance Warrior.

The fragment is so large that divers have been unable to lift it. Instead, it's been dragged along the bottom of the lake on a metal sheet. At 1,257 pounds -- that's 570 kilos -- It will be almost as big as the Holsinger meteorite, which landed in Arizona 50,000 years ago, and broke the scales when it was weighed earlier today.

The Holsinger meteorite is merely the largest piece of the 150-foot bolide that produced Meteor Crater (a.k.a. Barringer Crater), a 3/4 of a mile wide impact crater.

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