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Meteorite's Location Found In Siberia
Alexander Batalin
Russian Information Agency Novosti
October 28, 2002

Scientists from Irkutsk (Siberia) have located the site in the Irkutsk 
Region's north where a meteorite fell on September 25 at night. 

According to Sergey Yazev, director of the Irkutsk State University's 
observatory, who returned last Sunday from an expedition, trees broken 
or chopped by the meteorite's fragments were found 37 km from the Mama 
settlement.  No fragments of the sky body which exploded in the 
atmosphere have been found, as the area in the forest is covered with 
deep snow now. 

In spring, scientists from Irkutsk and their colleagues of the Russian 
Academy of Sciences Meteorite Committee are going to organise a more 
large-scale expedition. According to Yazev, the meteorite's stone must 
contain a substance having more than four billion years of age, which 
has a great value for studying the history of the solar system's 
formation. 

The meteorite's location was found due to the research of Irkutsk 
seismologists and an American satellite which fixed the flash of the 
sky body exploding in the air. Originally the meteorite was thought to 
have fallen in the Bodaibo district. 

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