Never Before Seen Crystals Found Inside 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteor

[Pierre]

Crystals in the Chelyabinsk "meteor" that was buried in the snow for 9 years:

 

[Alix]

Buckyballs! Thank you, Pierre, that was a great video. It just goes to show that you never know what is 'hitching a ride' on the objects that come close to or crash into the earth...

 

[psychegram]

Cool!

Side note, I love Anton's channel. He's one of the top YouTube astronomy popularizers, in my opinion.

 

[Ca.]

Crystals in the Chelyabinsk "meteor" that was buried in the snow for 9 years:

Another interesting factoid about the plume that was generated after this meter event.

Aug 14, 2013
A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument on NPP to deliver unprecedented data and help them track and study the meteor plume for months. This video shows how accurately the model prediction coincided with the satellite observations.