Ural scientists have found a meteorite in the Mongolian desert

Employees of the Extra Terra Consortium scientific laboratory of the Ural Federal University found a meteorite weighing 800 g during the expedition in the Gobi Desert (Mongolia). Search work will last until September 8th.

This is the fourth foreign expedition of URFU scientists for meteorites after the Antarctic (land of the Queen of Mod), Iranian (Desert Deste-Lut) and Chilean (Obstakama desert). On the territory of the former USSR and Russia, a meteorite expedition has been operating since 1986, the press service of the university reports .

In addition to employees of the Physics and Technology Institute of URFU, scientists of the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia take part in the expedition.

At the end of July, Russian scientists opened a new Uakita mineral in the Iron Meteorite “Uakit” found in Buryatia.