The capital of Nicaragua was hit by a meteor

In the area of the international airport of Managua crashed meteorite. On the point of falling celestial bodies appeared wide crater.

On the outskirts of the capital of Nicaragua on September 7, metropolis crashed meteorite. On the point of falling celestial bodies appeared crater with a diameter of 12 meters and a depth of 5 meters. To search for and study of fragments of the meteorite formed a Committee composed of scientists, followers of the Moscow authorities and the armed forces.

According to the version of the local inhabitants of the fall of the heavenly bodies marked deafening cotton, the sound was more similar to an explosion. Among other things, the inhabitants of the surrounding districts said that he felt the shock wave. Purposely designed the Commission adopted the precedent of the fall "relatively not very large meteorite that broke away from passing near Earth asteroid", Regnum informs. Power power has already begun to experts with a call to render assistance to the Nicaraguan scientists in research.

When the fall of the celestial body is divided into separate fragments. These parts of the meteorite could be buried at the bottom of the funnel. When it hits the ground, inter alia appeared seismic wave, which has registered seismographically intentionally formed the group cleans the area in which landed on a celestial body. Scientists are constantly searching for fragments of a meteorite, for their further studies.

According to the researcher of the Astronomical Observatory of Nicaragua Umberto Sabulosa, a meteorite could have been part of the asteroid the size of a house, September 6, flew past the Earth on the territory of the United States.

Note that the reduction of heaven meteorite in Nicaragua has happened before. According to reliable information scientists, it's already 2 similar option in the modern history of the state. The previous reduction of a rather large meteorite in this country happened in 2007.

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