The fireball sparked panic as it flew over the Ural Mountains, shattering glass in cities, wounding well over 1,000, amid warnings that 'doomsday' had arrived.
The main remnant of the Chelyabinsk meteorite is to be hoisted to the surface within days.
After whizzing around space since the beginning of time, scientists can now examine meteorite.
The asteroid was 'the same size' as the meteor which exploded over Chelyabinsk injuring 1,500.
Siberian scientists discover a previous collision for the space rock, or near miss with the Sun.
'We possess a rock from the time of genesis,' announces expert.
Spectacular falling meteorite fragments struck the Chelyabinsk region on Friday morning exploding in the atmosphere and crashing to the ground.
The city of Chelyabinsk cleared up its broken glass and divers scoured a lake to find a meteorite which hit with the force of a nuclear bomb.
For the first time they all get together next to a lump of space rock that almost killed them.