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Daily News… SCIENTISTS CLAIM DISCOVERY OF RUSSIAN METEORITES Russian scientists said they had discovered over 50 fragments of the meteor that struck the Urals last week, creating a shockwave that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes. The giant piece of space rock streaked spectacularly over the central Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday before exploding with the force of 30 of the nuclear bombs dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II. There was initial disappointment when Russian emergency ministry workers who scoured a lake where at least some of the fragments were believed to have fallen were unable to find anything in their initial search over the weekend. But members of the Russian Academy of Sciences who conducted chemical tests on some unusual rock formations they found on Sunday said the pieces had come from outer space. «We confirm that the particles of a substance found by our expedition near Lake Chebarkul really do have the composition of a meteorite,» RIA Novosti quoted Russian Academy of Sciences member Viktor Grokhovsky. Grokhovsky’s Urals Federal University separately posted a statement on its website that featured a photograph of a person holding a tiny piece of a black shiny rock between his index finger and thumb. «This meteorite belongs to the class of regular chondrites,» the university statement said, referring to specific term for a meteorite that contains small mineral granules. Grokhovsky said the rock in question -- one of a set of 53 that measure no more than a couple of centimetres (less than an inch) in length -- was composed in part of iron as well as chrysolite and sulfite. The meteor’s shockwave blew out the windows of nearly 5,000 buildings and left 40 people -- including three children -- still recovering in hospital Sunday with cuts and more serious injuries. About 24,000 emergency workers and volunteers spent the weekend replacing smashed windows in time for the resumption of school classes and work on Monday.
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International News… ASTEROID DETECTION NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom. But the US space agency reiterated that events like the one in the Urals, which shattered windows and injured nearly 1,000 people, are rare. «We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average,» said Paul Chodas of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
10,000 PINK BALLOONS ON KABUL Despite grinding poverty and more than three decades of war, a New York-based artist believes 10,000 pink balloons can help bring peace and happiness to Afghans on the streets of Kabul. Yazmany Arboleda has already unleashed coloured balloons in India, Japan and Kenya. He hopes that Afghanistan can be the next to benefit from «simple happiness» despite being in the grip of an 11-year Taliban insurgency. «The actual date will be a surprise. Once people will wake up, they will see an explosion of colours,» he told a news conference on Monday.
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