* Astronomy

125 meteorites have been discovered in Russia over the past 250 years. Visitors can see the most interesting of them at the "Meteoric Rain" exhibition that is currently underway at the Ural Geology Museum in Yekaterinburg. There is a large variety of meteorites there, including stone, iron, and stony-iron meteorites, which we do not come across very often today. A 150-kilogram fragment of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite is really the pearl of the of the Yekaterinburg exhibition.
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