Earth threatens grand meteor attack – Ghhauto: Russian top stories

15.10.2015 02:20

Astronomers warned of the possibility of the “brothers” of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Ural Federal University Professor V. Grokhovsky told about the imminent threat to the Earth meteorite. It is known that 2-3 times a century, the largest celestial bodies fall on our planet.

“ In this century, the first large meteor exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk. It is possible that the Earth has once or twice can be attacked by” brothers “of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. The largest Meteorites are attacking our planet about 2-3 times per century. For example, in the XX century, this history opened the Tunguska meteorite. Then, it was still at least two invasions of large meteorites on Earth “, – said the scientist Tass. The astronomer said that his hypothesis, he builds on the basis of the study of statistics meteor attacks Earth for the last several centuries.

Only 1% of dangerous celestial bodies (ONT), the size of more than fifty meters is known to those skilled in the world, ascertain the participants held in Moscow Congress “ Global and national strategies for risk management and natural disasters “, RIA Novosti reported.

The problem of counteraction to ONT is poorly understood, scientists have concluded. “ The main uncertainty – the bad a priori knowledge of the properties of threatening the body and, therefore, uncertainty in the assessment of the effects of the use of weapons techniques of destruction or methods of changing the orbit OH T” – the document says.

Earlier reported that the area of ​​the shock defeat after the fall of 15 February 2013 the Chelyabinsk meteorite was 6.5 thousand square kilometers, which, for example, 2.5 times more than the total area of ​​Moscow. The blast knocked out windows of a meteorite more than 7 thousand buildings, glass splinters wounded more than 1.6 thousand people. Economic losses exceeded 1.2 billion rubles.