meteor shower in central russia, page-11

Jak,

Maybe somewhat larger, lol.

"The rock could have weighed several dozens of tons, Sergei Smirnov, an expert from Pulkovo observatory, told the Russia-24 state TV channel.

"During the impact, such a huge body becomes disintegrated with the velocity of the fragments reaching several kilometers per second," he said.

Scientists from the Russian Academy of Science believe the meteorite could be an "advance guard" of the asteroid 2012 DA14, which is expected to bypass the Earth at an uncomfortably close distance of 27,000 km at 23:25 p.m. Moscow time (1925 GMT) on Friday.

If the asteroid was to hit the Earth, it would make a crater up to 1 km wide, astronomers said."

2012DA14 is due around 6am tomorrow morning in NSW.

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