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September 17, 2013 Marina Galperina

That 10-ton meteorite that crashed into a lake in Chelyabinsk at 30,000 mph is still at the bottom of that lake until September 25th, when it will be removed for scientific purposes… unless founder of the Church of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite Andrei Breivichko can stop it. Breivichko says that the “celestial body” should only be removed by the “psychic priests” […]

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February 21, 2013 Marina Galperina

Remember when that 10-ton meteorite fell 30,000 mph into a Russian lake and suddenly, all these dashcam videos popped up online and you were like waaaaaa? And then the whole internet is like, WHY DO RUSSIANS HAVE DASH CAMS?!!! And then this ANIMAL article from 2012 — Dash-Cams: Russia’s Last Hope for Civility and Survival on […]

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Andy Cush

That big one in Siberia wasn’t the first meteorite to touch down on Earth. French journalist Jean Abbiateci and developer Pablo Navarro created the below animated visualization, which maps every meteorite fall from 1900 on onto one global map. And what do we learn? That lots of space rocks have touched down in the U.S. […]

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