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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Mar 4^th, 2013 at 10:10am	Print Post
	Here's a link John Frazier shared with me with videos showing footage of the meteor as it fell as well as the damage it caused. Very cool! http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/secret_video.html

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Rebecca God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 653 Joined: Nov 11^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #1 - Mar 5^th, 2013 at 10:31am	Print Post
	Does anybody here have a piece of this meteorite yet?


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #2 - Mar 6^th, 2013 at 8:39am	Print Post
	The reports I have heard so far is that only a smattering of small fragments have been recovered and these fragments have yet to be determined whether or not they came from the recent Chelyabinsk fall. The fall is still recent, so there will no doubt be more pieces recovered and verified.

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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #3 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 2:24pm	Print Post
	This is the greatest meteorite fall in recorded history. There will be several thousand pounds of this material on the market. So far the good stuff is running $50 to $30 per gram. Google videos of the meteorite fall. Watch people get hit, garage doors blown off their hinges and building taken down and hundreds of folks sent to the hospital. Very exciting that we have so much video of this fall.


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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #4 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 2:26pm	Print Post
	Meteorite has been classified as a LL5. Very quick classification.


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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #5 - Apr 22^nd, 2013 at 8:13pm	Print Post
	Finally got my first meteorite from this fall today (04/22). Prices continue to jump around now from $10 to $100 per gram depending on the quality and size of the meteorite.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #6 - Apr 23^rd, 2013 at 7:55am	Print Post
	Awesome! Lets see it

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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #7 - Apr 25^th, 2013 at 7:34am	Print Post
	Scott here is a pic of my meteorite. It is 3.38 grams.

	Chelyabinsk3_38gLL5.jpg ( 21 KB \| 146 Downloads )
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dave Full Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 247 Joined: Oct 4^th, 2010	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #8 - Apr 25^th, 2013 at 10:35am	Print Post
	There was a guy at the Tarheel show that had a meteorite display, he's a professor at Duke. He had a pretty good handful of nice ones from it.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #9 - Apr 26^th, 2013 at 8:27am	Print Post
	Very nice! Thanks for posting a picture. From space to Russia to NC!

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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #10 - Dec 4^th, 2013 at 7:49am	Print Post
	Here is a pic of one cut and you can see the impact melt veins in the meteorite. This one is 4.48 grams and is half of a complete meteorite.

	Chelyabinsk4_85g.jpg ( 127 KB \| 141 Downloads )
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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #11 - Dec 4^th, 2013 at 9:36am	Print Post
	Very cool. It's neat to realize that this piece is something that was accompanying that big fireball in the sky that was captured in so many videos. P.S. Where do you get one of those 1cm scale cubes, I think it would be useful in many of my photographs.

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Raleigh Rockhound Senior Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 352 Joined: May 14^th, 2012	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #12 - Dec 4^th, 2013 at 10:16am	Print Post
	You can buy them on amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005MDS0UM


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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Chelyabinsk, Russian meteorite Reply #13 - Dec 4^th, 2013 at 9:29pm	Print Post
	Several meteorite dealers have them for sale and probably you would find one on ebay. Glad you liked the pic.


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