Select athletes will be taking home medals from the Sochi Winter Olympics that are literally out of this world.
Fragments of a meteor that hit the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia's southern Ural region last February have been embedded in 10 commemorative medals that will be given out at the games, according to the Associated Press.
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City officials commissioned 50 total medals, 10 of which will be given to Olympians who take home the gold in their events on Feb. 15, the anniversary of the meteor strike. The ceremony will not be part of official Olympic programming, and the medals will be presented to athletes in addition to their official tokens.
Olympians competing in eight different sports — alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, curling, ice hockey, short track, skeleton, ski jumping and speed skating — will have a chance to snag the space swag.
This is hardly the meteor's first public debut. Moscow Planetarium put bits of the object on display last month as part of an exhibit called "Meteorites — guests from the sky."
The meteor strike was the second-largest in more than a century, injuring approximately 12,000 people, according to The New York Times. Fragments found in the medals were taken from a 1,250-pound chunk of the space rock that was fished out of a Russian lake in October.
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