RAS researcher calls asteroid falling in Yakutia unique

The success in fixing the trajectory of the asteroid, which fell in Yakutia, can be called a unique case. About this "Izvestia" on December 3 told the professor, a member of the Committee on meteorites of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Grokhovsky.

"Earth's telescopes observe a very small part of the sky, so the fact that this asteroid was caught is a huge stroke of luck. The trajectory and time of fall astronomers calculated later. This is, in general, a success, an achievement," he said.

Grokhovsky noted that the asteroid posed no danger because of its small size. Thus, he pointed out the small chances of finding any remnants of the celestial body in the crater.

Earlier in the day, the head of the Extra terra consortium laboratory of the Ural Federal University (UFU), Viktor Grokhovsky, said that the asteroid's fall was the 11th case in history, when scientists determined the phenomenon in advance and calculated the trajectory.

Later appeared footage of eyewitnesses who saw the fall of the asteroid. The video shows a bright object in the sky, which eventually passed above the atmosphere. GU EMERCOM of Russia in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) reported that the safety of life activity of the population was not violated.