This little guy once packed enough of a punch to shatter a city's windows.
(Credit: eBay/danieldeffo)
Capitalism is certainly alive and well in today's Russia, as demonstrated by the growing number of attempts to cash in on the recent and much-recorded (thanks to the help of ubiquitous Russian dashboard cams) meteor strike in Siberia.
The meteor that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk while also producing a window-shattering sonic boom and momentarily outshining the sun has become a cash cow for many opportunistic folks now offering up purported fragments of the space stone on eBay and elsewhere online.
One eBay item that has already sold advertises quarter-size "samples from the scene of a meteorite" for $200 a pop.
That's got to make plenty of Russians thankful that the technology to ... [Read more]
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