Thursday, January 2, fell to Earth asteroid. The diameter of the celestial body was only five meters. He was given the name of AA 2014. Asteroid belongs to the class of the smallest, according to Discovery News.
«asteroid this size will likely not even reached the surface of our planet and burned in the atmosphere. Touched the earth, perhaps only the dust. Fallen celestial body in the morning, January 2, in the Atlantic between Africa and South America. Discovered asteroid morning of January 1 in the observatory of the U.S. state of Arizona, “- said in a statement.
In February 2013 the territory of Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Kurgan and Sverdlovsk regions, as well as the northern part of Kazakhstan covered meteor rain. Major damage was recorded in the Chelyabinsk region. According to the regional Ministry of Health, as a result of the incident affected more than 1.5 thousand people.
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