with lawrence maxwell krause he's a theoretical physicist cosmologist and a professor at the school of earth and space exploration well i've got to ask you this after what happened today here in russia can we really be sure that this asteroid everybody's talking about is going to miss planet earth yes we can be sure and we at this point it's close enough that we know its trajectory very very well and it will be close but no cigar as we like to say here all right is that how do you predict back then how can you predict nobody predicted this meter or russia what's the difference between the two. bigger than the other after all the one that hit russia while it may seem large was only thirty times somewhere in that range and you know actually it's kind of interesting about almost ten times as much material is falling on earth every day from space but just a tiny meteorites this is a larger one meteors this size right the earth maybe a few times. a century and then but the but the object in space is much much bigger than that and of course if it impacted on the earth it wouldn't just break some w

tease you got a piece can also reporting sticking with this story lawrence maxwell kraus from the school of earth and space exploration claims that if parts of the meteor were recovered they would be of huge scientific interest. meter as in asteroids are many of them come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent in word some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it bu

facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region nor is maxwell cross from the school of earth and space exploration says this was an event of huge scientific interest. meteor isn't asteroids are common many of them come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since a solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed but if but if some of that material can

lawrence maxwell crawls from the school of earth and space exploration says this was an event of huge scientific interest. maybe there is an asteroids are commenting and then come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it but if some of that material can be recovered it will be incredibly interesting

in a mid-sized the city east of the urals people are starting to go to work or school when the sky is lit up by a fiery path of the media are about to smash into the earth in the middle of russia when i witness was the canadian hockey player michael garnett who gave a firsthand account of the dramatic arrival. speak bright like shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun and then it was followed by a huge. explosion on board a minute or so later that broke last nearly sank the lake fixtures were swaying back and forth i don't point to when looking out the window when i saw this giant street going across the sky like the tail of the cloud of what what had just happened and i at that point i knew it was something that came from the sky immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone in work so i was a little bit scared at the point the radio broke up in the earth's atmosphere resulting in multiple fragments falling near populated areas the incident triggered a huge panic among people in the affected region as r.t.c. got a piece can offer ports well this was right abou