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Half-tonne meteorite recovered from Russian Lake (PHOTO)

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A police officer stands near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in the Chelyabinsk region on February 15, 2013 (Chelyabinsk Region Police Depart/AFP/File, -)

A police officer stands near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in the Chelyabinsk region on February 15, 2013 (Chelyabinsk Region Police Depart/AFP/File, -)

A police officer stands near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in the Chelyabinsk region on February 15, 2013 (Chelyabinsk Region Police Depart/AFP/File, -)

On Wednesday, a half ton suspected meteorite was pulled from a lake in the Urals in Russia. The shockwave caused by the impact of the Chelyabinsk meteor that this meteorite broke off from injured close to 1,200 individuals last February. Part of the operation to extract the meteorite from the lake was to wrap the approximately five foot long rock in a special case while still submerged.

The meteorite was fractured when it was discovered. After the extraction, scientists immediately tried to weigh it. Unfortunately, due to the fracture, it quickly started to crumble. The scientific crews scrambled to place the pieces back on the scale using cranes. The scale malfunctioned at 1,255 pounds.

The next step is to confirm that this actually is a meteorite. Five rocks have been pulled from the lake since operations commenced in May, but only four out of five have been confirmed fragments of the February meteor. Scientists are confident the tests will confirm that this is in fact part of the meteor, actually the largest part of the meteor discovered to date.

The residents of the remote region are hoping that the meteor will attract tourists to their area.

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