Scientists excluded possibility of collision of a kilometer asteroid with Earth

The asteroid coming nearer to Earth with number 163373 will pass at a big distance from our planet and does not constitute any danger to mankind. The research supervisor declared INASAN Shustov Boris. The scientist called asteroid approach by an ordinary event. "For science interesting, and on the practical level harmless" — quotes Shustov Boris Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti". According to the astronomer, more than 40 asteroids up to 100 m in size annually fly by by Earth at distance closer, than the Moon. Earlier the site of National administration office on aeronautics and space research reported that the asteroid with number 163373 with a diameter from 440 to 990 m will fly by on February 15...