Ice meteorite falls on Russian soil
NZPA-Reuter Moscow A Russian holiday camp supervisor who narrowly missed being hit by a block of ice falling from a cloudless sky has provided Soviet scientists with their first sample of an “ice meteorite.” Anatoly Kozukhov heard a whizzing noise and jumped out of the way as the chunk of ice thudded to Earth on the path two paces away from him at a camp near Kazan on the Volga River, reports Tass news agency. Mr Kozukhov put the
strange object in his refrigerator and called Moscow scientists who sent a team of researchers. Their conclusion was that the camp had been struck by the remnants of frozen gas meteorites. Ice meteorites have landed on Earth before but melted before scientists could analyse their chemical composition, Tass said. Mr Kozukhov managed to preserve most of his and it has been flown to Moscow for laboratory analysis, it said.
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