Lafiel on 15 February 2013
| Somini said: Was that it though for a steroid that would pass near earth today? When i first read about a month ago, the report mentioned a rock 50 meters in size. This meteorite was was too small to be the one mentioned. And yes i know they tend to get smaller because of the friction after entering the planet's atmosphere. Does anyone know more about this? |
The big piece we discovered before will still pass the earth in a safe distance, yet as this event shows there may be smaller (undiscovered) pieces that share a very very similar orbit, as when small pieces of an asteroid come off these may travel almost the same route for a long long time.
