Russian website offers meteor sale

Russian website offers meteor sale

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a Russian Internet site offering sale of what it claims to be a fragment of the meteor that struck the Chelyabinsk area for 100,000 rubles, more than three times the average monthly income of 300,000 rubles for the country's middle-class. Russian police have called on the public not to buy anything that has yet to be certified as a fragment of the meteor, which fell on the region Feb. 15 and left around 1,500 people injured.

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  • 2013/2/19 00:00:00
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