Strange Case Of The ‘Levitating’ Chelyabinsk Meteorite

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – The Chelyabinsk meteor has caused problems ever since it entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 15 February 2013, and now a small fragment of it has been said to “levitate” for unknown reasons.

Being the size of a six-story building, the meteor broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, near the Ural Mountains in Russia causing a blast that was stronger than a nuclear explosion.  The explosion was so bright that it could be detected from monitoring stations as far away as Antarctica. The shock wave it generated impacted 3,000 buildings and injured about 1,500 people.

Chelyabinsk meteorite specimen, one of many found within days of the airburst. Credit: Svend Buhl / Meteorite Recon, CC BY-SA 3.0

A small fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteor is kept at the historical museum in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. In December this year visitors and staff suddenly noticed the space rock started to “levitate”. A display dome covers the meteorite, but something must have gone wrong because footage from CCTV cameras shows the meteorite begins to rise and hover about 5 inches above the exhibit. Security staff ran to the scene and closed the dome after an alarm went off.

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“There is no explanation for what happened, the reason is unclear, as we know for sure that there were no technical problems,” museum spokesman Yuri Bogatenkov told Russian media.

“We spoke to all our specialists in electronics and wiring, who said unanimously that it was impossible to have it opening by itself. Yet it happened. Right after it happened I queried what could it possibly be, and there is no answer so far”, Bogdanovsky added.

what a weird story, surely smth must have gone wrong with the mechanism. Museum CCTV footage shows protective dome over a fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite rising apparently ‘all by itself’. Museum director & staff insist they or faulty electronics had nothing to do with it pic.twitter.com/opOX1M7jsd

— The Siberian Times (@siberian_times) December 17, 2019

The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reports that one day before the meteorite started to levitate some Pagan worshippers and a group of “strange people” visited the museum. The newspaper speculated whether these visitors had done something, but the museum’s public relations head Aivar Valeev thinks this peculiar event was most likely caused by a technical failure of some kind.

“We joked that the brother of the Chelyabinsk meteorite said ‘hi’ to our space rock and ours was simply exhaling in response,” he said, according to Gazeta.ru.

However, he did emphasize that “we don’t believe in mysticism,” suggesting that the incident was simply down to a “technical failure.”

Valeev explained that the museum needs to carry out a “system check to reveal why it happened and make sure such a surprise does not happen again.”

Written by Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer