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Flying over St. Petersburg meteorite fell in the lake Seliger

Added	Fri, 15/09/2017
Источники	vladtime.ru
Дата публикации	Fri, 15/09/2017
Версии	Meteor

Flying over St. Petersburg in the night of 12 September, the meteorite could fall in the area of lake Seliger. This was told at the Ural Federal University.

Experts managed to calculate the approximate trajectory, using the social networks video and data of the Finnish fireball network. The neighbors are calculation variants of dispersion, therefore the exact place of falling is not yet established. This is probably the area of Seliger. The car during the flight he performed a number of slices. As suggested by experts, initially, its length consisted of one meter and a weight of one ton.To Earth flew only small fragments.

On the night of 12 September in the Northern capital of a meteorite flying. Fireball recorded on camera DVRs, where noticeable movement of the cosmic body and burn up.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»