Russian scientists pulled a giant meteorite out of a lake, and managed to break it immediately.

Eight months ago, the Chelyabinsk meteorite fell out of the skies over the Ural mountainsIt created a shockwave that injured 1,200 people.

Scientists on Wednesday entered the lake where the meteorite fell from the heavens, Lake Chebarkul, to extract the giant hunk of rock from the Chelyabinsk meteor.

Divers pulled a 5-foot long, 1,255-pound chunk of the meteorite from the water....and managed to break it immediately. Whoops.

"The rock had a fracture when we found it," one unnamed scientist said during the live video feed on Russian TV. As the scientists pulled it from the lake, using levers and ropes, the fracture expanded, splitting it into at least three pieces.

The scale broke too, apparently.

"It weighed [1,255-pounds] before the pieces fell off. And then the scale broke," the scientist said.

Before the meteorite was extracted, scientists thought it would be one of the biggest meteorites ever. "Based on our initial observations... this is a part of the Chelyabinsk meteor," Sergei Zamozdra, a lecturer at Chelyabinsk State University, told the Interfax news agency.

"This is the largest fragment of that meteor," said the scientist.

"And most likely, it will be one of the 10 largest meteorites ever found."

Caroline Smith, who works as the curator of meteorites at London's Natural History Museum, confirmed that the object was a meteorite.

"Fusion crust forms as the meteoroid is travelling through the atmosphere as a fireball," she said. "The outer surface gets so hot it melts the rock to form a dark, glassy surface crust which we term a fusion crust."

Still, now it's....well....broken. Watch the breakage in the video below and tell us what you think in the comments.