Russia sends clean-up team to meteorite-hit Urals

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11. The sky is very very very big and the meteor was quite small.

Most tabs being kept on objects are either space junk in Earth orbit - which is quite nearby and completely preditable in their movements - or much larger objects than the one that went off over Russia, which was also moving far faster than orbital debris.

A handful of pieces like this come down somewhere in the world every year, usually over the ocean. They're too small to see coming without a lot of time and equipment that isn't budgeted for right now; we're barely able to keep tabs on bigger objects.