Irkutsk, October 28, 2015, 16:18 – REGNUM A small meteorite (car) fell into Lake Baikal. On this day, October 28, the website of Irkutsk planetarium with reference to the report of employee Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk State University (GDI) Kirill Ivanov.
The car was registered two automatic monitoring stations of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk State University, located in Tunka valley and carry out surveillance of meteors project SkyLine.
It is reported that a meteorite fell on October 22 at 20:29 local time (15:29 MSK). Heavenly body crashed into the water of Lake Baikal, about a kilometer from the coast and 17 kilometers from the town of Big Goloustnoye. According to the calculations of astronomers the mass of the car does not exceed one kilogram, in diameter, it was about 10 centimeters. After analyzing the trajectory of the car, the astronomers concluded that the celestial body was “native” from the asteroid belt.
In addition to the astronomers observed a meteorite and the locals, who then exchanged impressions on social networks. Eyewitnesses reported that a falling meteorite was visible for about 10 seconds from Listvyanka, the village and the city of Angarsk Khomutovo. In addition, eyewitnesses claim that the meteorite broke up into two parts, one of which quickly burned in flight.
Get a meteorite from the bottom of Lake Baikal is unlikely. It is small and likely broke up into pieces and buried in sediments. In addition, on Lake Baikal at the moment there is no deep-water craft.
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