A group of volunteers at the beginning of next week will go on an expedition to Vygozero in the Segezhsky region of Karelia, at the bottom of which a mysterious crater was discovered, presumably formed as a result of a meteorite fall. This was announced by the coordinator of the international research association "Cosmopoisk" in Petrozavodsk Mikhail Gusakov.
The group will include divers. “Let's explore the bottom, the funnel. We will have metal detectors and other devices. Let's try to find what fell. If it is a meteorite, then we will transfer it to our Karelian Scientific Center,”he said.
The expedition will be led by the head of "Cosmopoisk", candidate of technical sciences Vadim Chernobrov, who studied many meteorites, including the Chelyabinsk one that fell into Lake Chebarkul on February 15, 2013.
Geologists of the Karelian Scientific Center also intend to explore Vygozero, but not earlier than next summer, Oleg Lavrov, a scientist at the Institute of Geology, head of the Museum of Geology, told the agency. In his opinion, the most "wealthy" version of what happened on December 2 is the fall into Vygozero of a "space guest" or part of an object launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
“The launches were not so long ago,” the scientist noted. He categorically dismissed the version that such traces could have been left by fishermen blowing up dynamite.
As reported, on December 2, residents of the village of Polga, located in the Segezha region of Karelia, reported to the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations that an "unidentified object" had fallen into Vygozero and a part of the coast had collapsed.
Local media reported that a strip of loosened soil was found near the shore of the lake, in the reservoir itself - a hole 12 meters in diameter. An amateur diver was attracted, who saw a crater with a diameter of four meters at the bottom of the lake. The regional Ministry of Emergency Situations could not confirm or deny the data of local residents about the fall of the meteorite into the lake, since "no foreign objects have been found yet."
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Vygozero is one of the ten largest lakes in Europe, with an area of 1140 sq. m.
