An asteroid is heading towards Russia. It's the size of the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka Square, which proposed remove the head of the Human Rights Council today

An asteroid with a diameter of about a meter will enter the Earth's atmosphere at 19:17 Moscow time. It is preliminarily will fall в Yakutia, 200 km from Lensk.

Scientists note, that the flash will be visible at a distance of 700 to 1000 km. There is a possibility that it will be seen even in the northern part Baikal and Chita.

The asteroid was first noticed by observatories in the United States. It is currently being observed by observatories in Hawaii.

The asteroid, by the way, is not flying alone: ​​together with it, it is flying towards Earth. approaching Two more boulders, 402 and 387 meters in size (equivalent to the Moscow City skyscrapers), will pass by at a distance of between two and five and a half million kilometers—on a cosmic scale, this is considered dangerously close (an asteroid such as this once killed the dinosaurs when Earth collided with it).

An asteroid is a celestial body that may pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and/or the defense capability of the Russian Federation – note from NeMoskva.

Photo: Honest Yakutia