Recently, a meteorite weighing about 10 tons flew over Canada. He became one of the largest meteorites to appear over the country in the past decade, writes The Times. It was first seen at an altitude of about 80 km east of the town of Lloydminster on the border of Saskatchewan and Alberta. The meteorite flew southeast at low speed
On Saturday night, at the entrance to the dense layers of the atmosphere, the meteorite flared brightly and tore apart, its debris fell over an area of 24 square meters. km. Experts believe that hundreds of small fragments have reached the Earth's surface, each weighing at least 50 grams. Under Canadian law, the ownership of the meteorite debris belongs to the owner of the site on which it fell. Therefore, researchers urge all owners of the fragments to donate or sell them to the country so that specialists can study them.
According to amateur astronomer Rick Huziak, most meteors completely burn out when they hit the dense atmosphere. The largest meteorite in Canada fell northeast of Edmonton in 1960, when more than 700 fragments were found with a total weight of 300 kg.
The largest meteorite in the world is considered to be a celestial body discovered in Namibia in 1920. Its weight exceeds 55 tons. Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite to Earth, the mystery of which scientists have not yet been able to solve.
By the way, "Canadian"; the meteorite was also visible on the territory of Russia. A resident of Yaroslavl Denis Smirnov even filmed his fall on a mobile phone camera, writes " Komsomolskaya Pravda
The witness says that a very bright orange ball flew across the sky towards the Volga. Smirnov assumed that it was a UFO, fireworks or a detached stage of a rocket launched from Plesetsk, but he could not even think that he was lucky enough to see a meteorite.
In May last year, "Around the World" wrote that the expedition of the public all-Russian scientific research association "Kosmopoisk" found in the Altai Territory fragments of a meteorite that fell in January. The fragments found were sent to a Moscow laboratory.
And in June, in the Magadan Region, a 7 kg fragment of the Seimchan iron meteorite was stolen from the Seimchan village museum of local lore. The Seichman meteorite belongs to the category of rare iron and iron-stone meteorites. The time of its fall to Earth is unknown. The first fragments of a meteorite with a total mass of 323 kg were found in 1967 near the Seimchan mine in the Susuman region of the Magadan region.
In September, after a meteorite fell in southern Peru, the inhabitants of the village of Caranca were struck by a mysterious disease. About 500 families complained of headaches, nausea, vomiting, and indigestion. Twelve people, as well as seven police officers who went to check the messages, were hospitalized in serious condition.
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