UrFU Scientists Found a Meteorite in the Mongolian Desert

12:39, August 27, 2018

The first sample weighs 800 grams

Six employees of the scientific laboratory Extra Terra Consortium, Ural Federal University, conduct search for meteorite samples in the area of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia). The expedition have already found the first sample weighing 800 grams.

According to the participants, the meteorite was found in the Noyon Disctrict. The expedition will last until September, 8.

The expedition includes six employees of UrFU Institute of Physics and Technology; the scientists from the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia also joined the expedition part.

This year UrFU organizes the international meteorite expedition for the fourth time. The first three took place in the Antarctic (Queen Maud Land), Iran (desert Dasht-e-Lut) and Chili (Atacama Desert). On the territory of the USSR and Russia, the meteorite expedition has been active since 1986.