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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.
With air temperatures at around minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), Russian divers spent Saturday scouring a frozen lake believed to be the impact site, but the emergency ministry has now decided to focus on repair works in the region instead, a spokesman told AFP.
“Divers worked there, but we didn’t find anything,” said spokesman Vyacheslav Ladonkin.
He said the ministry considered that a circular eight-metre hole in the frozen lake Chebarkul, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the city of Chelyabinsk, was not caused by any extraterrestrial body.
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2013-02-17 15:51:05
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-russia-halts-search-for-meteorite