Expert says asteroid falling in Yakutia poses no danger

The fall of asteroid C0WEPC5 in Yakutia does not pose a danger to the nature and population of the region. This was stated on December 4 by Igor Koltovsky, associate professor of the Department of Radiophysics and Electronic Systems of the Physical-Technical Institute (PTI) of the North-Eastern Federal University.

"The asteroid itself was small in size, a meter wide, burned in the upper atmosphere, about 100 km from Earth, so it does not pose a danger to the population and nature," TASS quoted him as saying.

Before that, on December 3, Professor Viktor Grokhovsky, a member of the Committee on Meteorites of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the success in fixing the trajectory of the asteroid, which fell in Yakutia on the same day, can be called a unique case. Grokhovsky noted that the asteroid posed no danger due to its small size. Thus, he pointed out the small chances of finding any remnants of the celestial body in the crater.

Viktor Grokhovsky, head of the Extra terra consortium laboratory of the Ural Federal University (UFU), pointed out 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 captured 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.