The meteorite exploded in the Russian sky last month more likely to split from an asteroid and collided with another celestial body tens of millions of years ago.
An asteroid caught fire and exploded violently, dragging shocks and glare in the sky of central Russia, breaking many glass doors and injuring hundreds.
Meteorite collectors are coming to Russia's Chelyabinsk area to search for meteorite fragments after a large object exploded in the sky on February 15.
A US senator commented that the US government invested a lot of money in the program to track objects near the earth, but their devices still could not detect meteorites falling on
Divers have just finished checking Lake Chebarkul, where a meteorite is thought to fall and create a giant crater on the ice, but no trace is found.
The meteorite weighing about 10,000 tons flew through the sky in the Ural region in the early morning hours on Friday when the world was holding its breath in anticipation of close
Russia's deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said yesterday he supported the call for the establishment of a system capable of preventing threats from space outside the globe.
Many large and small devastations by meteorites have occurred throughout the history of tens of billion years of Earth existence. Many countermeasures have also been studied.
A group of Russian scientists on February 17 found a stone, believed to be a meteorite fragment at Lake Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region, on February 15, after the Russian
Russian scientists have found the largest meteorite to date in the meteorite fall in Ural on February 15.