Senior researcher at the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Goncharov in an interview with & nbsp; & laquo; Moscow & nbsp; 24 & raquo; assessed the danger of asteroids passing through Earth orbit.
Earlier, the UN warned that the planet could potentially be threatened by more than 25,000 such objects.
Goncharov said that most of the small asteroids are inaccessible for observation, so their collision with the Earth's surface is almost impossible to predict at home. ;advance. As an example, the scientist cited the Chelyabinsk meteorite. & Nbsp;
At the same time, Gontcharov believes that one should not fear disasters with large asteroids.
“ An asteroid 100 kilometers long will not go unnoticed. Even a kilometer long will not go unnoticed & ndash; the money gets paid, people work on it. The border passes somewhere in the area of 100 meters in size & ndash; we can optimistically say that we will also see the asteroid 100 meters ahead, “he added.
Recall that previous scientists were talking of an asteroid from another solar system.
AiF.ru also explained how the age of meteorites is calculated.