Monday, August 13, 2007

Thieves make off with three-tonne meteorite

Russian police were combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Friday for a three-ton meteorite that has disappeared from under the nose of its keepers.

The giant rock was stolen from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, news agency Interfax reported.

"It winds up that it disappeared back in June, when the foundation was moving out of its old building," a police spokesperson told the agency.

"Our colleagues are establishing what got lost, where the rock is and why they only came to us about it now," he said.

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