In his official "findings of fact, " however, Fidler said only that Lee recovered a small white object the size of a fingernail and that the object was never presented to prosecutors.
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Space debris is tracked by the United States Space Surveillance Network that uses radar that can detect an object the size of a pea at 400 miles.
It is only every 2, 000 years or so that an object the size of a football field descends to earth and causes significant damage, according to NASA. Giant asteroids that crash to earth such as the one that most likely extinguished the dinosaurs tend to occur on the scale of millions of years.
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool has raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.
Scientists have played down suggestions that there is any link between the event in the Urals and 2012 DA14, an asteroid which raced past the Earth later on Friday at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200 miles) - the closest ever for an object of that size.
The size of an object in space has been traditionally measured by looking at how much sunlight is reflected from it.
Scientists discovered that the pull is specific to the size and substance of a given object, and that targets would sometimes reorganize themselves in a way that improved the results.
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Late on April 21, just before midnight, a person saw an object -- later determined to be the quart-size container that held the explosive -- on the ground near a trash container, Woolverton told CNN on Thursday.
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Because the theory relies on an object that itself has already found a way to grow to the size of Mars, the bow shock idea creates a bit of a chicken or egg problem.
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Two, I had a knack for remembering what kind of packing material was best for which fragile object, and I immediately understood why it was better that personal-size bags of chips be torn vertically, while family-size bags be torn horizontally, and where the tabs should be located to al-low each sort of tearing.
"The meteor was probably about the size of an SUV, " said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif.
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