Scientists have not yet managed to find traces of a meteor (bolide) on the ground, which they recorded in the sky over Tyumen on Thursday night, Viktor Grokhovsky, professor at the Physics and Technology Institute of the Ural Federal University (UrFU), head of the meteorite expeditions of the university, told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
The car flew by at 3.13 (1.13 Moscow time), he specified.
"A good car. Our squad went there. But the fact is that today a blizzard began there, and, according to our calculations, that area is very difficult. It is swamps, taiga. This is beyond Tyumen, where the Trans-Siberian Railway runs," he said. the interlocutor of the agency.
He clarified that the UrFU expedition worked in the Tyumen area on Saturday - so far to no avail, and on Sunday it had already returned.
According to him, the research would be greatly helped by recordings from video cameras in the Tyumen region. This would make it possible to locate more precisely the place where the car flew. Scientists are trying to get such records, but since it was deep night during the flight of the car, there are few eyewitnesses and witnesses to what happened.
"While the observations were in Omsk, in Ozersk, in the neighboring regions - but this is all far away … I think it was a good size, a meter in size. The Chelyabinsk meteorite was 19 meters, this one was smaller," Grokhovsky said.