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Chelyabinsk is the eighth most populated city in Russia, with approximately 1,170,000 people. It is the capital of the Southern Urals, an important industrial, scientific and cultural center on the border of Europe and Asia (Figs. 1.1 and 1.2).
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Nakanune.Ru: “A NASA astrophysicist considers that the recovery of meteorite fragments from Lake Chebarkul can be postponed to the next season.” News of February 14, 2013; www.nakanune.ru/news/2013/10/14/22327254/#sthash.RhTHcd4A.dpuf
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See, for example, CIMSS Satellite Blog, “Satellite Views of Meteor Vapor Trail Over Russia,” http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/12356
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RIA Novosti “The Chelyabinsk meteorite turned out to be as old as the Solar System”; http://ria.ru/space/20131004/967759217.html
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Bruce Dorminey “NASA Surprised by Chelyabinsk Russian Meteor Fragments”; www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2015/03/21/nasa-surprised-by-chelyabinsk-russian-meteor-fragments/#4a2ca92a430e
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Gorkavyi, N.N. (2019). Meteors, meteorites and the Chelyabinsk superbolide: main facts. In: Gorkavyi, N., Dudorov, A., Taskaev, S. (eds) Chelyabinsk Superbolide. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22986-3_1
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