Federal Target Program (FTP) to protect Russia from space threats lay on the table to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The content of this program is not yet known, but it has already been announced the cost is 58 billion rubles. About this at a press conference in RBC said the department of space astrometry of the Institute of Astronomy RAS Lydia Rykhlova. This program was the reaction of the authorities to the fall 15 February 2013 in the Chelyabinsk region of a meteorite. As a result let’s remind, a few almost one and a half thousand people suffered, billions of damage were done to the region. 
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PHOTO: AP Meanwhile, experts found that debris found in the area of the local lake Chebarkul bodies are fragments of a classic stone meteorite. The corresponding statement was made by the head of the Ural expedition Federal University for the Search for a Meteorite Victor Grakhovsky. Assumptions that it could be not a meteorite, but something another, the expert called insolvent. Grakhovsky noted that it is worth organizing a search expedition as soon as possible the remaining fragments of the meteorite. “I think there are still points where there are debris of a meteorite, we will be happy to take part in such an expedition, but our efforts are not enough for this, “he said. In total, according to the expert, 53 are found to date. a fragment of a car, they are all small in size. Exploded in heaven over Chelyabinsk, the heavenly body is actually an analogue Tunguska meteorite and may help in the study of the old phenomenon. This position was voiced by a leading researcher at the Institute. Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Bagrov. By his opinion, residents of the Chelyabinsk region saw not a stone meteorite, but a comet with a core in the form of an ice block that does not leave traces. The governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, called the question with meteorites a planetary problem. “This is not a problem one countries, this is a problem that affects all the inhabitants of the Earth, planetary scale. And it seems to me that really ripened the need in some way for both specialists and international the community to make some decisions: how we will deal with such a danger that needs to be done, “the head emphasized region. Recall that on Friday morning in the Urals a meteorite fell about 10 thousand tons. Upon entering the atmosphere, it exploded, resulting in to significant destruction in Chelyabinsk and its environs. Over a thousand people were injured, mainly from cuts knocked out glasses. This morning it became known that, despite official completion of the search, scientists were able to find fragments fallen heavenly body. Meanwhile, the number of victims rose to 1 thousand 491 people, of which 311 children. About this RBC reported in the Ministry of Health of Russia. On stationary 46 people are currently being treated, 21 patients are able to moderate severity.
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