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A tweet from Urals State University representatives says Urals scientists are making a live broadcast from the laboratory studying meteorite pieces.

“An Urals State University expedition has brought pieces found near Chelyabinsk to the university. Researchers said the pieces belonged to the meteorite,” the report said.

It also said a video of the Chelyabinsk meteorite fragments studied at the university lab was available at http://93.88.180.250.

The video sound is off. It shows meteorite pictures on three computer displays and a small piece of dark substance captioned the Meteorite Chebarkul.

Earlier reports said that the search for fragments of the meteorite that blasted above the Chelyabinsk region had stopped and no fragments had been found.

The search was made in the Lake Chebarkul, one kilometer away from the same-name city, near the village of Zvyagino in the Chebarkul district and the village of Kuvashi near Zlatoust.

Chelyabinsk Vice-Governor Igor Murog told Interfax that the hole found in the Lake Chebarkul and suspected of being the place where meteorite pieces might have landed had a different origin.

The Emergency Situations Ministry also said that meteorite pieces had not been found.