Moscow, January 2 – AIF Moscow. Five-meter asteroid 2014 AA, which was discovered by astronomers day ago, on Thursday entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Atlantic, a heavenly body, probably completely collapsed and did not reach to Earth.
Asteroid 2014 AA was found in the morning on January 1 employees of the American Observatory Mount Lemmon. Astronomers have conducted a series of measurements, and then said that in a day to have to fall on our planet, according to RIA Novosti.
«Almost exactly what AA 2014 entered the Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 2 at about 0450 GMT (08.50 MSK)”, – stated in the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union.
According to specialists NASA, probable impact area of ??the celestial body that extends from Central America to East Africa. However, the Earth asteroid hardly flew and destroyed in the atmosphere.
This case was the second in history when fallen to Earth celestial body was discovered before the fall. The first time was in 2008, when the asteroid 2008 TC3 opened the day before, as its fragments fell in the Sudan.
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