In the early hours of Wednesday (4), an asteroid crossed the sky in Russia’s Olekminsk and Lensk regions, and the images went viral on social media.
Residents of the Olekminsk and Lensk regions captured the moment when an asteroid tore through the sky in flames in eastern Russia in the early hours of Wednesday (4). The impact caused no damage in the region.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Yakutia region put all official bodies on alert as the asteroid approached.
The European Space Agency detected the asteroid 12 hours before it disintegrated in the atmosphere. The agency estimates that it was 70 cm in diameter.
“Thanks to observations from astronomers around the world, our warning system was able to predict this impact with an accuracy of plus or minus 10 seconds,” said the agency.
In Russia, an asteroid falling with a diameter of about 1 meter in Olekminsk, Yakutia. pic.twitter.com/YECz61Etpp
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