The meteorite Nicaragua does it come from the asteroid RC 2014
This weekend, an asteroid, RC 2014, passed very close to Earth at 40,000 km only. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, a meteorite crashed near a hotel in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. The two events are related? Yes, say experts in the country.
On Saturday night at 22 h 55 local time, the people of Managua were surprised by an explosion. Seismometers Nicaraguan network has also recorded the event, which took place near the international airport. Research in this urban rapid and oversight of the military zone, led to the discovery of a crater 12 meters in diameter and 3 m deep. A nicaragayen site, EL19, has released images of the crater.
Apparently, there is no doubt: it is a meteorite that fell there, causing no damage or casualties. Chance is extraordinary in this dense city with 1.2 million inhabitants. The object has fallen into one of the few wooded areas around 300 m from the Camino Real hotel.
A group of experts has been formed and has begun the investigation, which included researchers from the INET (Institute for the Study of Nicaraguan territory, responsible for monitoring seismic and volcanic activity). For now, the size of the object is unknown, as is their nature. It is not clear what is and what is going to recover in the crater, heavily guarded by the army. Perhaps still buried deep, but it may also have been widely dispersed materials. Scientists from other countries will surely lend a hand to INETER geologists.
-However, the country's authorities have stated afterwards that the meteorite came from the asteroid RC 2014, spotted Aug. 31 by Catalina Survey program and actually passed very close to Earth Sunday, September 7. The Pan-1 telescope Starr was also possible to observe that little body, which would measure about twenty yards and came within 40,000 kilometers of Earth's surface, that is to say, just a little further than geostationary orbit. Schedules correspond roughly since 2014 RC went closest to Earth on Sunday at 18 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and the object of Managua touched down that day at about 5 pm GMT (so Saturday night to 23 h 00 local time).
However, no astronomical data are available to advance this hypothesis with certainty and must be confirmed. We remember that the meteorite fell in Chelyabinsk in Russia, February 13, 2013, struck the Earth a few hours before passing very near the asteroid 2012 DA Yet the two objects whose trajectories were very different, did not come no neighboring directions and therefore have that intersect by chance near our planet.
Anyway, the event of Managua is extremely rare for the proximity of the fall with a major metropolitan area. He will remain as such in the record, unless one considers that the increase in human population density increases the probability that a body fell from the sky lands on a populated area.
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