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3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
morpheus83 writes "Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that thieves have stolen a three-ton meteorite from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908. The massive three tonne rock was bought to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called Tunguska event- a mysterious mid air explosion over Siberia in 1908 was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The foundation's director Yury Lavbin claimed to have discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft during the expedition."
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How could someone steal a 3 tonne meteorite? I don't really see how the theft happened unnoticed.
If they were able to bring a 3-ton meteorite out of the tundra to the foundation headquarters, why couldn't they have managed to bring back even a scrap of the supposed alien wreckage?
Gosh... they stole slashdot, too?
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No more "in Soviet Russia" jokes. They're not funny.
Well, except maybe "I, for one, welcome our new asteroid stealing overlords from Soviet Russia."
the aliens have turned up to take it back claiming we store it?!!?! Liers!
My current understanding of the Tunguska event was that there were still at least three really good potential theories and that they were still researching. Asteroid, meteorite, etc.
Anyway, glad to see the Aliens got their rock back. No tin-foil-hat-wearing clown should own Alien property. If my car parks on an ant hill, the ants suddenly don't own my car. And this guy had no right to "own" that rock. This guy has got to get a clue regarding species relations.
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"Uh, what?"
and sharp too.
Not to be picky, but its probably fairly smooth, due to the melting going through the atmosphere. Admittedly I haven't seen a picture of the thing, since the site is not responding.
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I'm betting that the Director stole it. To claim that he found an alien space craft, he must either be lying or insane.
It's not like you can stick it in your pocket and walk away, even if you are that Russian boxer dude that killed Apollo Creed...... The foundation's director Yury Lavbin claimed to have discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft during the expedition. And the article goes on to say that it just disappeared. (I'm not clear if it was the spaceship or the rock..... or maybe the rock was the spaceship....) Damn, and we were so close to proving the Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are real.......
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Wikipedia: Tunguska Event
The US military used their stealth helicopter technology (enhanced with alien technology) to airlift the meteor out in the middle of the night. Otherwise, someone would have eventually discovered the alien artifacts embedded deep within the meteor.
I can't believe such an obvious answer hasn't been expressed yet.
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In short, this news is bullshit. Not a single meteorite remain from Tunguska event has been found.
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Someone tell the thieves that no matter how many walls they cross with it in England, the rock won't turn into Claire Danes, er, Yvaine.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I've already had it cut down so it will fit on some nice jewerly....
It make me radiate with bling....
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To my best knowledge it was never cleared up what exactly caused the accident in the first place..
And now, almost a 100 years later, we suddenly get to hear that they lost a 3 ton meteor (how the hell do you lose a 3 ton rock?) and oh yeah, btw, that was the meteor that caused the incident!....
No worries, we had it lying in our backyard all the time, never felt a urge or saw the reason to let the rest of the world know....
Yeah, right.
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Wow this reads like the opening lines of a cheesy horror flick. Next thing you know, Russia will be overtaken by Siberian Space Zombies.
Wait a second, it's all so much clearer now.
Obviously, Yury didn't bring the alien ship back because he himself is possessed, and the alien-Yury decided it would be much smarter to bring the meteorite back and tell a few oligarchs that it was filled with oil! Yes! So they go and steal it for their own ends, but they'll all get possessed, and the black ooze will be walking in the corridors of Russian power. And all this when there is talk of a new Cold War developing with the West.
Coincidence? I think not.
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I think someone is Putin us on!!
the whole thing is fake.
They haven't recovered anything from that blast, let alone a 3 ton meteorite.
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If someone stole it, wouldn't it be pretty easy to follow the trail it must've left? I'm calling BS on this.
How is it even possible to have a 3 ton chunk of rock left over after it exploded 800+ feet in the air? It would have either sluffed-off in plasma form when coming through the atmosphere or been turned to dust in the explosion. 3 ton Tunguska meteorite? I don't think so. Hoax.
The game.
You'd think a vastly advanced alien civilization would produce better spaceship pilots - but it seems like everyone who has ever visited has crashed in some area too secluded for witnesses.
Perhaps their disproportionately bulbous guitar pick-shaped heads crumple atop their spindly bodies when they enter Earth's gravity well.
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Now that it's all over /. I can't sell it on E-Bay anymore!
...3T meteorite, bids starting at $100...
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....Russian Scientists have newly discovered a 3-ton metorite that seems to suddenly landed in their yard B of the Tunguska.
And don't step in any of that oily stuff.
Have gnu, will travel.
Despite prevailing suspicions that a group of mutant little girls whizzed off with the rock to build their Help-the-Town-and-Make-It-a-Better-Place machine, don't forget that meteorite rock is pretty scarce, and can fetch a pretty penny/ounce.
Martian Meteorites have sold for $85k/ounce, and this source claims $3600/troy ounce for more garden variety space rocks. This is more valuable than gold, platinum, maybe comparable to Rhodium.
So, (3tonnes = 128,602.986troy ounces)*$3600/ounce = $467 Million, just sitting around in your backyard. No chain, or Kryptonite lock, or even post-it note saying "please don't steal." Just asking for trouble from the neighbor kids, they were.
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Ebay has a whole section dedicated to just meteorites.
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> If they were able to bring a 3-ton meteorite out of the tundra
. htm
> to the foundation headquarters, why couldn't they have managed
> to bring back even a scrap of the supposed alien wreckage?
Because it would not have been a very wise idea?
You need to read up on the literature:
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or at least watch the film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(film)
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some grainy security cam video shows up on liveleak with three guys in a pickup truck backing into the place and grabbing the rock?
Do you have ESP?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
3 tonnes? Being Russian, I don't see a problem here. The real question is why have they done it. Who's gonna buy it?
I am still confused as to how someone would "steel" a 6000lb rock without leaving some good evidence. Anyone hear about a missing 18 wheeler in the area. And then where do you take it and what do you do with it.
I have to agree... I think the aliens took it back.
It's strange that in an old news (2004), that was only a 50 kilograms rock : "MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion in Siberia almost a hundred years ago, the Interfax news agency reported. The scientists, who belong to the Tunguska space phenomenon public state fund, said they found the remains of an extra-terrestrial device that allegedly crashed near the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908. They also claim to have discovered a 50-kilogram (110-pound) rock which they have sent to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for analysis. The Tunguska blast, in a desolate part of Siberia, remains one of the 20th century's biggest scientific mysteries. [...]"
Not to be picky back, but if you were to take a smooth thing and slam it on the ground realy hard, there is a reasonable change of getting sharp bits...
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If you look at the Google image cache you will see that a fair few are rounded, thought admittedly there some that are slightly jagged:
http://images.google.ca/images?q=meteorite&ie=UTF
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I had a really cool Samurai statue that got stolen from my yard. I was sad it was gone, and was really kicking myself for leaving it in the yard. Like me, they shoulda just brought it inside . . . maybe it really didn't go with the interior decor.
Nosmo King has stolen the Tunguska Meteorite!!!
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I can't be bothered RTFA, but has anyone linked this to prices for metals? Of course it's probably only worth a few roubles, refined...
The closest correlate in recent news was the theft of a bronze sculpture from Henry Moore's estate in London (in reality, priceless; but worth about five million pounds on the art market, worth a few thousand on the metals market. It's been melted down by now, for a certainty).
Metal road signs, street fittings, even fire engine nozzles are being stolen in the UK and US for the same market. Unless something cools China's demand for raw material to build crap for Western markets, it can be guaranteed that manhole covers, electric wires, train rails, and all other metal objects will not remain unsecured in public places.
Another nail in the coffin of a civilised way of life. Thanks, free market capitalism!
you had me at #!
You do know that because of your foresight that you will now be the first to die. Personally, I am going to avoid you and the hot chicks so that I might live through this near total zombie armageddon.
One last thing: Sometimes I wonder; "Is that someone's signature? Or do they type that at the end of each post?"
I wonder how Karl Rove is going to get it back to his house in Texas.
If you're a conspiracy nut...
I remember an episode of Banachek (starring the indomitable George Peppard) in which a multi-ton sculpture disappeared from a gallery soon after installation. Turns out that it just looked like it was made of stone, but was actually papier mâché or something of the sort and it was all a scam to claim the insurance...
Obviously, Vladimir Putin stole it to use its power in his quest to rebuild the Soviet Union. The evidence is clear. Russia's President Vladimir Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.
Also, don't forget the loopholes in the constitutions of several former Soviet states that allow Putin to re-form the USSR. See STOCKWATCH, near the bottom right of the page.
It hatched!
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According to this article, the meteorite went missing last June, but they only reported it now. HELLO? It's still on Lavbin's desk, right where he left it, but his desk is actually MORE MESSY than mine.
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There, now all ISR jokes are officially dead.
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Ok so the 3T meteorite which had never previously been found/disclosed gets stolen, big deal, smells of hoax.
But wait, he claims he found alien ship wreckage? F* the rock, tell me the wreckage is still safe!!
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Maybe the landscapers just thought it was debris...
"that thieves have stolen a three-ton meteorite"
The massive three tonne rock
So is it ton or tonne?
Hey, I resemble that remark! What are you implying?
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1. Chris Angel made it vanish. Get him to make it re-appear. 2. Steve Jobs had it stolen. They needed more materials for iPhones. 3. Sony stole it as a part of some new DRM for blu-ray discs.
Alien force field technology. ...er, I mean four words.
No, eight.
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If I remember the incident correctly, this one did not slam into the ground, it exploded in mid air..... Still, odds are its pretty edgy tho :p
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Maybe the thieves are planning to hold the rock hostage until the wreckage of the alien spacecraft is released.
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I'm in ur meterorite, soviet russia steals you! 3 ton meteorite missing...shouldnt be too difficult to track down, unless allegations of UFOs being involved with it are true. In the case of the latter, Ghostbusters are to be contacted stat.
and I'll return it for *ONE MILLION DOLLARS* (raises pinky to corner of mouth)
They probably mistook it for a Russian manufacture car.
Squirrel!
The only reason to steal this would be that there was a buyer for it. No one would just take it so they could have a big rock. So the real question is who in the world would buy this and what would they do with it. You can't show it to anyone. It would be as dumb as stealing a famous painting. You could only sell it to some nut case who wants to hide it in a closet.
Wouldn't rain have eroded it quite a bit by now?
I just read Slashdot for the articles.
So it's still in mid-air?
With the mounts and all, I wouldn't be surprised, but perhaps I'm overestimating a tad, it was quite awhile ago. ;)
I know it was pretty damn heavy. I helped move it once and it was heavier than most residential boilers, which at the time, was something I lugged around daily, so that puts it around 400lbs of wood at least.
I'm not sure what type of wood it was made from, but it was carved by a chainsaw artist. Really amazing. Before it was stolen, I was trying to buy it for my house. (seemed like a good idea at the time)
I wish I had a picture of it (it was recovered years later in someone's backyard btw)
The restaurant is long defunct, the only picture I could find is this.
http://www.schneearch.com/res_slide9.html
Keep in mind, you can't see the rest very well because of the lighting, it went back to near where the rear legs would be.
Exaggerated or not, it was pretty damn heavy and mounted very securely.
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"If I remember the incident correctly, this one did not slam into the ground, it exploded in mid air"
Well, unless you really think the stolen 3000 Kg rock managed to stay floating in mid air since 1908 it somehow *had* to hit the ground, hadn't it?
Ya, that inspires confidence in his other findings.
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actually it was shot down by aliens. am i joking?
If the explosion or impact did actually release energy greater than 1000 Hiroshima bombs, then how could anyone tell whether the resulting mess might have been part of an alien ship. Any matter that is exposed to that amount of energy is going end up looking rather strange. And matter is matter everywhere, metal is metal, alloy is alloy. Any alien life form that came in a star ship from 50 or so light years away is going to be using a design for a star ship that is not all that much different from our designs (such as on Star Trek). And none of those designs are going to be able to survive a 1000x Hiroshima blast. So where does this fool get off saying that there might have been a 'alien star ship' in the wreakage? What he probably saw was the remains of a steam locomotive that went through an enormous blast. Of course, in the Soviet era, blaming unexplained results from any unusual event on space aliens was probably the best thing to do. And yes, I do know that the blast occurred before the Soviet era.
Nah. nevermind...3 tons!= The Moon.
I guess I also go for the Moose and the Squirrel option, since I didn't see a CowboyNeil option.
This wasn't a poll?!?!?
Nevermind.....
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...a one-ton giraffe statue from the putt putt golf place here in my town a couple years ago. No idea how they did it. It was just not there one morning.
Wow, it looks like a fun place to eat! But I'm British so what would I know...
It wasn't bad, but didn't really fit the neighborhood. It only lasted a couple of years if that.
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Excuse me but that is complete and utter bullshit. I feel the urgent need to educate you a bit ;-)
About the only thing your right about is that they only had fission based nuclear weapons in 1945.
IANAP but this is usually thought in any high school physics curriculum.
Both fusion and fission bombs are nuclear weapons because they both employ nuclear principles to release their energies.
A fusion bomb works by the principle that two very light atomic nucleus (Hydrogen or Helium isotopes usually) fuses together. The combined new and larger atomic nucleus has a lower internal binding energy than the sum of the two original nucleus's had and this energy is released.
A fission bomb works by the opposite principle where a heavy atomic nucleus (Plutonium or another large atom) is split into two lighter nucleus's (and usually a few other particle components), this process also liberates some nuclear binding energy.
The release of nuclear binding energy with both fusion and fission is possible because the energy levels (binding energy per mass unit) is lowest in the mid range of the elementary table. So in effect both fusion and fission bombs are harnessing the same nuclear energy although the mechanism is a bit different.
You can read a more detailed explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon (follow the links to fusion and fission) or in any decent physics text book.
Please note the use of the term 'nuclear weapon' for both fusion and fission based weapons.
What seems to be confusing you is that in the early days especially the media used the term atomic energy or atom bomb instead of the more precise term 'nuclear'. Nuclear is a better term to use since it is closer to and more descriptive of the physical process that actually take place (the splitting or fusing of atomic nucleuses).
It might also be confusing that fusion bombs are sometimes called thermo nuclear weapons because of the extreme (thermonuclear) temperatures needed to start the fusion process. In fact a fission bomb is used to trigger the fusion bomb.
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That is a alien spacecraft ingeniously disguised as meteorite. Why would anyone would steal a three-ton rock?