Half-ton meteor found in Russia

 

Russian divers managed to find a half-ton meteorite , part of the chunk that exploded in Chelyabinsk earlier this year .
Click the Meteor crashed into Lake ChebarkulKlik in central Russia last February 15 , and causing a hole as wide as six feet in the lake when it 's icy .
Scientists say it is the largest meteor ever found .
More than 1,000 people were injured when a meteor at 17 meters with a weight of 10,000 tons of burned and broken in the middle Russian air and cause the glass window was smashed and buildings shaking .
Video footage showed rescuers pull chunks of width 1.5 meters from the bottom of the lake after wrapped with metal cover .
Space rock was then withdrawn to be weighed .scales damaged
But the stone was broken into three pieces when lifted with a rope . Scales was damaged when heavy stones exceeded 570 pounds .
Dr Caroline Smith , meteorite curator at the Natural History Museum London , make sure that the object was a meteor based on its characteristics .
He told BBC News , " which form the boulders being hurled through the atmosphere as a meteor fireball . "
Vesti 24 television station reported the divers have found more than 12 blocks from Lake Cherkabul since the incident last February .
However, only four of the five chunks which are meteors , such as the TV station reported .