Half-ton meteor found in Russia

Chunks of the meteor is pulled from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul in Central Russia.

Russian divers managed to find a half-ton meteorite, part of the chunk that exploded in Chelyabinsk earlier this year.

ClickMeteor crashed into Lake Chebarkul Clickin central Russia last February 15, and causing a hole as wide as six feet in the lake when it's icy.

Scientists say it is the largest meteor ever found.

More than 1,000 people were injured when a meteor at 17 meters with a weight of 10,000 tons of burned and broken in the middle Russian air and cause the glass window was smashed and buildings shaking.

Video footage showed rescuers pull chunks of width 1.5 meters from the bottom of the lake after wrapped with metal cover.

Space rock was then withdrawn to be weighed.

Scales damaged

But the stone was broken into three pieces when lifted with a rope. Scales was damaged when heavy stones exceeded 570 pounds.

Dr Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at the Natural History Museum London, make sure that the object was a meteor based on its characteristics.

He told BBC News, "which form the boulders being hurled through the atmosphere as a meteor fireball."

Vesti 24 television station reported the divers have found more than 12 blocks from Lake Cherkabul since the incident last February.

However, only four of the five chunks which are meteors, such as the TV station reported.