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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?
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.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
"Uh, what?"
Sought for questioning: Bald White Man, Tall, with typical evil genius features. Last heard uttering the phrase "I know how to stop Superman!"
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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It doesn't hurt to be nice.
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.
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.
Life starts at the end of your comfort zone.
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.
Bryan
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.
Ebay has a whole section dedicated to just meteorites.
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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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Actually depending on it's density it could be smaller than you think. If it is a rock, say with the density of concrete it would only be 1.48 cubic yards in size.
That mean 4.5 ft length on each axis roughly (since it is irregular and all). It is nothing a hoist and a few straps couldn't lift into a suitable truck.
If the density was higher as they say the composition maybe iron, those dimension will be even smaller.
Hey, I resemble that remark! What are you implying?
Or - 4. A viral marketing campaign for the soon-to-be-announced "Super Mario Brothers: Meteorite Mania!" game. Unfortunately, Adam and Morgan will only give it 2 1/2 stars, and it will disappear into well-deserved obscurity soon after.
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