“As part of the creation of a monitoring system and information support for the safety of space activities in near-Earth space, it is planned to create the Russian Center for Small Celestial Bodies, whose main task will be to detect and track naturally occurring celestial bodies approaching the Earth,” he told RIA Novosti.

It is assumed that the organization will allow the interaction of Roscosmos, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Emergencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and will also provide information and exchange data with other states and international organizations.

Russian surveillance tools discovered in early November a new asteroid comparable in size to the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

Astrophysicist, leading researcher at the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University Alexander Panov said that the asteroid is not a serious danger.