OREANDA-NEWS  Asteroid C0WEPC5, which fell in Yakutia on the night of December 4, does not threaten nature and people. This was stated by Igor Koltovskoi, Associate Professor of the Department of Radiophysics and Electronic Systems at the Institute of Physics and Technology (FTI) of the Northeastern Federal University, TASS reports.

According to the expert, the asteroid was small in size, its width was one meter. "It burned down in the upper atmosphere, about 100 kilometers from Earth, so it does not pose a danger to the population and nature," he explained.