A specialist in American Space Agency said Friday in Sibiu, it was not detected asteriod any scale that might hit Earth. William J. Cooke, a NASA specialist, was asked in a press conference, though no reports of a possible asteroid collision with Earth's huge.
"NASA did not detect any scale that will hit the Earth in the next few hundred years. No large asteroids in the next few hundred years. Asteriozi may be small, the size of a house, but nothing kilometer size is not designed the Earth in the next few hundred years, "said William J. Cooke.
Asked whether or not near the end of the world, NASA specialists answered laughing: "I think we are safe! I sleep very well and quiet night."
Detlef Koschny, specialist of the European Space Station, said, in turn, the effects are small in a collision with an asteroid the size of a house. "Such an explosion was in Siberia, in 1908, about a hundred years ago. There was an asteroid with a diameter of 40 meters, so much like a large house.
A completely exploded in the atmosphere. Such events occur, usually about 300-400 years. Objects that we might collide are small, so they produce small effects. Why do not we fear, "said Detlef Koschny.
The two specialists are in Sibiu to attend the 30th International Conference on meteors, discussing practical and scientific aspects of the existence of meteors in the universe.
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