illustration of The meteorite that crashed in Celyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013. (REUTERS/www.celyabinsk.ru/Handout)The Northern defense forces have been instructed to deal with this problem and perform with a plan to protect Russia from space tourists, "Moscow (Reuters)-Russia's air defense forces will develop a series of actions aimed at protecting Russia from the debris land meteorites and other space objects are dangerous, said the District Commander of Western military aviation Maj. Igor Makushev, Wednesday.
"The Northern defense forces have been instructed to deal with this problem and perform with a plan to protect Russia from space tourists," said Makushev.
This announcement comes a few days after the meteorite enters the Earth's atmosphere that is detected by means of space probes and hit Ural, Russia, on Friday.
Meteor debris caused the big bang, which blew out Windows and damaging thousands of buildings around the city of Chelyabinsk, as well as injuring 1,200 people in the area.
According to the Ministry of health, 52 people were treated at the hospital.
NASA estimates the meteorite with a diameter of approximately 50 feet (15 meters) when it entered the Earth's atmosphere, streaking is faster than the speed of sound, and exploded into a ball of fire brighter than the Sun.
"There is no system that exists, both Russia and America, which detects objects in this space until it enters the atmosphere," said the Director of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Russia Boris Shustov, Wednesday.
Scientists say it is impossible to find meteorites, such as it came from the direction of the Sun, while the radar set to detect objects flying in the range of specified speed.
Shustov said scientists estimate Russia energy released when an explosion equal to less than 500 kilotons.
He also said astronomers have discovered and cataloged just two percent of the potentially dangerous space objects with the size of about 50 meters, capable of causing a disaster worse than the Tunguska Catastrophe.
"This is a sign of our ignorance, because we must be able to monitor around at least 90 percent if not all objects that exist," RIA Novosti quoted Shustov said.
(H-AK/M016)
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