How to predict a meteor shower
Meteor shower in the Russia's Sverdlovsk region smashed windows in several houses and injured more than 1000 people, according to reports from Russia's media. This accident brought about discussions among both pundits and Russian officials about the size of the metiorite as well as the difficulties encountered in predicting such events.
Missile attack warning system cannot trace dangerous asteroids - general designer
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
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
Moscow envisions national asteroid-defense system
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
Chelyabinsk meteorite: Mystery revealed
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
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
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
Meteorite-caused emergency situation regime over in Chelyabinsk region
The emergency situation regime put in place in meteorite-stricken municipalities of the Chelyabinsk region is over now, Chelyabinsk Region First Vice-Governor Sergei Komyakov told reporters on Tuesday
Russian scientists revealed minerals contained in Chebarkul meteorite
Experts from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences have studied two pieces of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15
Meteorite falls on fertile soil of modern phobias
The Chelyabinsk meteorite not only caused millions in damage and injured over a thousand of people, but it also awoke a new phobia in people’s minds
Consequences of asteroid destruction with nuclear explosion unpredictable - expert
Scientists are looking into several asteroid defense options, among them asteroid destruction with nuclear devices, Active Academic Advisor of the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences Yuri Zaitsev told Interfax-AVN
Urals scientists find biggest piece of Chelyabinsk meteorite
The latest expedition of the Urals Federal University to the Chelyabinsk region collected over a hundred meteorite pieces, university employee, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Meteorite Committee Viktor Grokhovsky told Interfax
Scientists see no threats for Earth in next 200 years
Astronomers learned to track potentially dangerous objects that could fall to Earth from outer space, but mankind still has not invented a way to destroy larger heavenly bodies. Russian astronomer Sergei Lamzin told RBTH about planetary threats
Urals scientists find more meteorite pieces in Chelyabinsk region
Urals Federal University researchers are back from a field expedition to the Chelyabinsk region where a meteorite fell last Friday, university employee, Russian Academy of Sciences Meteorite Committee member Viktor Grokhovsky told Interfax on Wednesd
Former astronaut develops telescope to block meteors
In the wake of last Friday’s unexpected guest from outer space — the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, RBTH reached out to former NASA astronaut Ed Lu who talks about how to prevent meteor scenarios much worse than Chelyabins
Over 1,500 hurt in meteorite event in Chelyabinsk region
Some 1,552 people were hurt in the meteorite event in the Chelyabinsk region, the regional health ministry reported on Tuesday
Scientists find the elements of the meteorite
A research worker of the Ural Federal University inspects a fragment of a material substance in Yekaterinburg, the province of Sverdlovsk capital in the Ural Mountains, February 18, 2013
Scientists: Most of meteorite mass sunken in Lake Chebarkul
Most of the meteorite that fell over the Chelyabinsk region on Friday morning and fragments of which Urals Federal University scientists have found is sunken in the Lake Chebarkul, expedition leader, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Meteorit
Some 600 residential buildings damaged by falling meteorite glazed in Urals Saturday
Glazing has been restored in 1,758 buildings damaged by a falling meteorite in the Urals last Friday, the press service of the regional center of the Emergency Situations' Ministry reported on Sunday
Meteorite triggers wave of humor on the Russian web
It took no more than a couple of hours for the meteorite in Chelyabinsk Region to generate a wave of gags and Internet memes
40 people hurt in meteorite event stay at hospital in Chelyabinsk region
Forty people injured in the meteorite fall are receiving hospital treatment in the Chelyabinsk region, a source at the Russian Health Ministry told Interfax on Saturday