Expertise of sand samples collected at the bottom of Vygozero in the Segezhsky district of Karelia was carried out by specialists from two institutes - the Moscow Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry named after V. I. Vernadsky RAS and Petrozavodsk Institute of Geology KSC RAS. No cosmic matter particles were found in the samples.
Recall that information about an emergency with a fall in Vygozero on December 1, a large body spread all over the media. After the incident, local fishermen contacted the Ministry of Emergency Situations, setting nets on Vygozero (300 km from Petrozavodsk). Not far from the fishing spot, they noticed a large - 20 meters in diameter - lane (as they call a hole in the ice) and the collapsed coast of the island. The Kosmopoisk group went to the site to take samples on the ice and at the bottom of the lake itself.
Divers from the "Water World" club in Petrozavodsk found a large crater in the supposed place of the fall and even groped some solid body under the bottom sand. At the beginning of the week, the head of "Cosmopoisk" Vadim Chernobrov delivered sand samples to Moscow for examination. It was studied in the meteoritics laboratory of the GEOKHI RAS.
Despite the presence of magnetic inclusions, scientists have not found meteorite signs in the sand. “There was a lot of ordinary quartz, coal, rusty particles in it, which, in fact, showed magnetic properties. Particles of cosmic matter, as we did not look for them, did not find them,”explained the head of the laboratory Mikhail NAZAROV to MK.
A similar negative result was shown by research in the laboratory of the Institute of Geology in Petrozavodsk.
Let us remind that shortly before the verdict of scientists, the head of the Republic of Karelia, Alexander Khudilainen, expressed his readiness to start active work on the rise of a meteorite from Vygozero, if scientists recognize it as such.
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However, the negative data of geochemical examinations did not stop the search engines. According to Vadim Chernobrov, his group intends to continue research. The next step should be to study the isotopic composition of water in the place of the supposed fall of the meteorite.
What instills confidence in search engines:
- eyewitness accounts of a loud blow on the ice and a strange glow over the lake;
- the presence of huge cracks in the ice from the lane along almost the entire lake;
- evidence from divers of an unusually loosened bottom, ice pressed to the bottom from the surface and the presence of something solid under the sand.
