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We have analyzed the observational results for variations in the main geomagnetic field and its fluctuations in the range of periods 1–1000 s that accompanied the approach of the Chelyabinsk space body to the magnetosphere and ionosphere of the Earth. The measurements were conducted with a magnetometerfluxmeter near the city of Kharkiv, as well as with the network of magnetometers located at the observatories of Novosibirsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Almaty, Khabarovsk, Arti, Borok, and Yakutsk. Variations in the main geomagnetic field and its fluctuations approximately 33–47 min prior to the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteoroid have been discovered; they persisted for 25–35 min and were probably associated with meteoroid passage through the magnetosphere. The amplitude of variations reached 1–6 nT. We have proposed a model of the generation of aperiodic, quasi-periodic, and noise-like variations in the geomagnetic field induced by the approach of a space body.
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Original Russian Text © L.F. Chernogor, 2018, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 267–280.
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Chernogor, L.F. Magnetospheric Effects during the Approach of the Chelyabinsk Meteoroid. Geomagn. Aeron. 58, 252–265 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793218020044
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