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Subject WSJ: Meteor was 10,000 tons. Largest in last 100 years
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Original Message We were some fucking lucky that bitch was not iron nor nickel or we would have had a real catastrophe.

The bulk of it burned in the atmosphere because it was stone. If it had been metal we would be talking about millions dead.

"The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material, scientists said, making it the largest such object to hit the Earth in more than a century.

Large pieces of the meteor have yet to be found. However, a team from the Urals Federal University, which is based in Yekaterinburg, collected 53 fragments, the largest of which was 7 millimeters, according to Viktor Grokhovsky, a scientist at the university."


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