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Details of the Largest Asteroid Impact in a Century (4 of 12)

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Details of the Largest Asteroid Impact in a Century (4 of 12)

image: This is the main mass of the Chelyabinsk fall at the Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local History shortly after recovery from Chebarkul Lake. Photo courtesy of Andrey Yarantsev. For more information, please see Figure S53D in the Supporting Online Material. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 7 Nov., 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Olga Popova at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, and colleagues was titled, "Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization." view more 

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