15 Feb 2013 13:43

Meteorite falls are hard to predict - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Roscosmos believes meteorites falls such as the one that has occurred in Chelyabinsk are difficult to predict.

"According to available information, the object was not registered by Russian or foreign ground space observation systems due to its special movement characteristics. Entrance by such objects into the atmosphere is accidental and is currently difficult to predict," the Roscosmos press service told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

Roscosmos said the space object that has fallen in Chelyabinsk is a not an object of man-made origin and is classified as a meteorite moving at a speed of some 30 kilometers per second on a lower trajectory.