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The E-Sylum: Volume 16, Number 32, August 7, 2013, Article 13

SOME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS TO CONTAIN RUSSIAN METEORITE FRAGMENTS

Here's (what I think is) a first for Olympic medals - some of the gold medals awarded at the next Olympics will contain fragments of a meteorite. Interesting! -Editor

gold-meteor-medal An Olympic gold medal is already a difficult, rare item to attain. And next year, winter Olympians will have an opportunity to win a gold medal that's even more rare. Come February, the seven finalists standing on the tallest part of the podium in Sochi, Russia will be awarded medals made of gold and metal from outer space.

Earlier this year, a meteor the size of a bus slammed into the Russian city of Chelyabinsk with the force of 20 atom bombs, generating much spectacular dashcam footage on YouTube. Fragments of that meteorite have been harvested and will be machined into the medals themselves, creating a gold and chondrite disc that only a handful of people on the Earth will ever wear around their necks. "We will hand out [the special] medals to all the athletes who will win gold on that day," said Chelyabinsk Region Culture Minister Alexei Betekhtin, "because both the meteorite strike and the Olympic Games are the global events."

Chelyabinsk and Sochi are not geographically close; the chondrite-infused medals will travel some 2,700 kilometers from the first city to the second. But the original meteor, of course, traveled quite a bit further than that.

To read the complete article, see: Seven Olympians To Win Gold Medals Made With Meteorite Fragments (www.core77.com/blog/materials/seven_olympians_to_win
_gold_medals_made_with_meteorite_fragments_25274.asp)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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