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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Victim city meteorite need help 17 million u.s. dollars

The Meteorite that crashed in Celyabinsk, Russia, from video image taken on February 15, 2013. (REUTERS/OOO Spetszakaz)

We have filed requests for assistance of the Central Government amounted to 16.6 million dollars, "
Moscow (Reuters)-the Government of Chelyabinsk Region asked the Government Center of Russia provides a budget of 16.6 million u.s. dollars to help repair the damage caused by the meteorite was struck on Friday, said regional Governor Mikhail Yurevich, Monday.

The window shattered and damaged walls at 4.715 building because the meteorite that fell in shock the Ural mountains. Most of the buildings damaged was the neighborhood residents.

Across the sky and a meteorite crashed in the region of Chelyabinsk. As many as a thousand residents were wounded by broken glass.

"We have submitted a request for the assistance of the Central Government amounted to 16.6 million dollars," said Yurevich to the reporter.

"Nevertheless the value of losses due to a meteorite bigger than that." He said that total damage was valued at 33, 2 million dollars.

Rescuers on Monday morning local time, describing it has been improving more than 3,500 buildings shaken by the meteorite.

The Unified Russia party ruling calling on businessmen in the city for not taking advantage of the disaster as the for-profit expresses over the growing demand for building materials.

That statement came out after there were reports of various companies that raise the price of stained-glass Windows and other building materials after the fall of the meteorite, OANA.

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Scientists: meteorite found in Lakes breakaway Ural

Russia's police are working near an ice hole, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region of Chelyabinsk is the collision of meteorite that previously seen in the Urals, Russia, Friday (15/2).(REUTERS/Chelyabinsk region Interior Ministry/Handout)

Moscow (Reuters)-a meteorite that fell on Splinter the Ural mountains, Russia and mencedarai more than a thousand people on Friday found scientists at Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Region Lakes.

"We have completed the study, we confirm about particulate matter (splinter) we found in the area of the Lake has a characteristic Cherbarkul meteorite," says Viktor Grohovsky of Urals Federal University.

"It is a type of Meteorite ordinary Chondrites. These types of objects such as stone space is made up of 10 percent iron. Meteorites found recently named Chebarkul meteorite. " Grohovsky.

United States Space Agency (NASA) estimate the meteorite had struck a major area of Russia on Friday has a diameter of 15 meters.

Space objects were reported fell by exceeding the speed of sound and explode like fireballs that shines brighter than the Sun.

A meteorite crashing through Earth's atmosphere, the sky and the region of Russia that led to a large scale explosion.

It destroys the event hundreds of homes and injuring 1,200 residents around the city of Chelyabinsk. Based on the statement of the Ministry of health as much as 52 victims should be treated in the hospital.

Such occurrences are rare and becoming a spectacular phenomenon triggered panic among residents in the area.

Some local residents like ourselves to record the event and the video spread quickly to the public through television and the internet around the world.
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