Broken first asteroid of the year,

In the first hours of the new year, the first asteroid of 2014 was discovered with a telescope of the Catalina Sky Survey near the city Tucson in the U.S. state of Arizona. Less than a day later, however, only a few meter diameter chunk was already history: He stepped over the Atlantic Ocean in the Earth's atmosphere.

In the first hours of the new year , as we the United States nor the beginning of 2014 celebrated in parts , was registered a moving light spot with one of the telescopes at the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson in the U.S. state of Arizona, which as two to three meter -wide asteroid turned out , who was on a collision course with Earth .

The object whose orbit could be calculated only very inaccurate due to the scarcity of observations , was named AA 2014 and was the first registered asteroid newcomer of the year 2014.

The region over which the asteroid would penetrate into Earth's atmosphere , but could - because of the lack of precise orbit data - are given only very imprecise : it was in a large area that stretched from Central America, across the Atlantic to East Africa .

Cause for concern , however, was not an asteroid of this size seldom reaches the earth without prejudice , but should completely break apart in Earth's atmosphere and mostly burn up . 2014 AA has similar dimensions as the asteroid 2008 TC3 , which broke up in October 2008 on the Sudan ( astronews.com reported). 2014 AA is also , after 2008 TC3 , only the second asteroid that was discovered before it enters the Earth's atmosphere.

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