15 Feb 2013 15:45

Russian Academy of Sciences denies new meteor threat

MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Scientists are not predicting a new meteorite fall similar to the one that occurred in the Chelyabinsk region, Dmitry Badyukov, deputy head of the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said.

"There are no more threats. Meteorites fall very rarely, although regularly," Badyukov told an intercom meeting chaired by Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov.