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| Divers working at a Russian lake have recovered what may be a 570kg chunk of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. | Divers working at a Russian lake have recovered what may be a 570kg chunk of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. |
| The object is thought to have plunged into Lake Chebarkul in central Russia leaving a 6m-wide hole in the ice. | The object is thought to have plunged into Lake Chebarkul in central Russia leaving a 6m-wide hole in the ice. |
| If confirmed, it would be the largest fragment of the meteorite yet found. | If confirmed, it would be the largest fragment of the meteorite yet found. |
| More than 1,000 people were injured when a 17m, 10,000-tonne space rock burned up over Russia on 15 February. | More than 1,000 people were injured when a 17m, 10,000-tonne space rock burned up over Russia on 15 February. |
| Live footage showed a team pull out a 1.5-metre-long (five-foot-long) rock from the lake after first wrapping it in a special covering and placing it on a metal sheet while it was still underwater. | |
| The boulder was then pulled ashore and placed on top of a scale for weighing, an operation that quickly went wrong. | |
| The rock broke up into at least three large pieces as it was lifted from the ground with the help of levers and ropes. | |
| Then the scale itself broke, the moment it hit the 570kg (1,255lb) mark. | |
| But scientists cautioned that it would take time before they could verify that the rock pulled from the lake had indeed come from space. | |
| The divers' mission had been hampered by a number of factors. The rock fragment lay at 13m depth, not 6m or 8m as was originally thought. | The divers' mission had been hampered by a number of factors. The rock fragment lay at 13m depth, not 6m or 8m as was originally thought. |
| The Vesti 24 rolling news channel reported that divers had already recovered more than 12 pieces from Lake Chebarkul since the incident on 15 February. | |
| The station cautioned that only four or five of them had turned out to be real meteorites. |