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Huge half-ton chunk of Russian meteorite lifted from lakebed

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The largest-discovered fragment of a Russian meteorite, weighing around 570 kilograms, has been lifted from the bed of Lake Chebarkul in the Urals. The huge meteorite chunk split into three pieces when scientists tried to weigh it. The precise weight could not be established because the heavy object broke the scales. “The preliminary examination… shows that this is really a fraction of the... 
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