Meteorite explosion

Rusia prepara un nuevo proyecto, que verá la luz a finales de este año, para contrarrestar la posible caída de asteroides. Fuente: PhotoXpress

Meteorite that exploded above Siberia could be up to 15 meters in diameter

December 7, 2016 TASS

Such meteorites pose no threat for humans

O sistema de telescópios robóticos Master é capaz de resolver em simultâneo um grande número de tarefas fundamentais e aplicadas em diversas áreas da astronomia Foto: Alamy/Legion Media

Meteorite reportedly crashed in Siberia

December 6, 2016 RBTH

First videos show dramatic fireball light up night sky over Khakassia

Instaweek: blaze in Kazan, Russian Universities in Top 100, and selfie with a meteorite

March 13, 2015 Ksenia Isaeva

RBTH presents a news digest based on Instagram photos related to Russia

Chunk of Chelyabinsk Meteorite on display in local museum. Source: TASS / Gleb Lunin

The Chelyabinsk meteorite two years on: What have we learned?

March 11, 2015 Andrei Raskin, special to RBTH

RBTH spoke to leading Russian scientists

Tourism has flourished in the region after meteorite exposion. Source: Alexander Kondratiuk / RIA Novosti

Catching a falling star: How a meteorite inspired Chelyabinsk

September 6, 2014 Darya Kezina, special to RBTH

2013 asteroid has created an artistic explosion in the city

Shooting meteoroid sparks flare in Yakutian skies - scientists

March 25, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

A meteoroid shot off in a meteor explosion sparked the bright flare above the Vilyuisk district of Yakutia

In February, a large meteorite fell in Chelyabinsk, a major industrial center of the Urals. Source: PhotoXPress

The principal events in Russian science in 2013

December 27, 2013 RIA Novosti

Meteorites, previously unknown bacteria, reforms and new evidence of panspermia, what will Russian science be remembered for this year?

Viktor Grokhovskiy led an exhibition to collect more than 700 fragments of Chelyabinsk meteorite. Source: RG

Nature magazine honors Urals meteorite hunter

December 23, 2013 Ekaterina Turysheva, RBTH

Russian scientist Viktor Grokhovskiy named Nature magazine’s Top 10 people of the year report for his research on the Chelyabinsk meteorite

Only about 10 percent of a meteor's total weight reaches the surface of the Earth. Source: Reuters

Chelyabinsk meteor shined brighter than the sun

November 10, 2013 Pavel Kotlyar, Gazeta.ru

Dr. Olga Popova of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geosphere Dynamics talks about the results of research on the Chelyabinsk meteor

Divers are still searching for Chelyabinsk meteorite. Source: Alexander Kondratuk / RIA Novosti

Little green men search for Chelyabinsk meteorite

October 4, 2013 Alexander Skripov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta

A team of divers have been trying to fish out the largest fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite in Chelyabinsk District’s Lake Chebarkul since early September

Scientists collect over 100 kilos of Chelyabinsk meteorite pieces

October 4, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

Scientists have collected over 100 kilograms of fragments from the meteorite that blasted in the skies of the Chelyabinsk region, Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute spokesman Yuri Zaitsev told Interfax-AVN on Friday

Meteor-encrusted medals up for grabs at Sochi 2014

July 27, 2013 RBTH, RIA Novosti

Sochi Olympic champions that happen to win on February 15, 2014 will receive special medals inlaid with tiny pieces of the meteor crashed in the Urals

Chelyabinsk meteorite fall into Lake Chebarkul commemorated

July 17, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

A memorial has been installed on the place where a fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite splashed into the Lake Chebarkul, the Chebarkul city administration press service reported

Chelyabinsk witnessed comet nucleus explosion in February - astronaut Grechko

June 21, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

A comet nucleus might have zipped past the Chelyabinsk region and exploded on February 15, astronaut Georgy Grechko said

Missile attack warning system cannot trace dangerous asteroids - general designer

April 24, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

The construction of an asteroid warning system is a quite feasible task, missile attack warning system general designer Sergei Boyev said

Asteroid monitoring requires combined efforts - Popovkin

April 13, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

The Defense Ministry, Roscosmos and the Russian Academy of Sciences should pool their efforts to deter the meteorite threat, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on the Rossiya 24 channel on Friday

The number of potentially hazardous cosmic bodies that could collide with Earth in the next 100-200 years is estimated at 200,000-300,000, yet only 2 percent of them are known to astronomers. Source: NASA / Artist's rendering

Moscow envisions national asteroid-defense system

March 25, 2013 RIA Novosti

New rocket launchers and super telescopes will help protect Russia from asteroids and comets, and a new national program to combat extraterrestrial threats could appear in Russia by late 2013

A research scientist of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry examines fragments of the Chebarkul meteorite through a microscope. Source: RIA Novosti / Valeriy Melnikov

Chelyabinsk meteorite: Mystery revealed

March 19, 2013 Alexánder Panov, combined report, RBTH

A month after the meteorite crash near the city of Chelyabinsk created a stir — both literally and figuratively — Russian scientists have calculated its weight and age and determined its main components and origin

Russian Space Agency to set up asteroid defense center

March 12, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

Roscosmos, the Defense Ministry and the Russian Academy of Sciences are pooling efforts to set up a center for deterring threats from the outer space, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said at a Federation Council roundtable on the asteroid hazard

Russia may develop network to deter space threats

March 6, 2013 RBTH, Interfax

The Federal Space Agency started to upgrade space monitoring systems even before the meteorite hit the Chelyabinsk region, a space industry source told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday

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