The Nicaraguan government has launched an investigation of the meteorite that struck an unpopulated part of Managua last weekend. The government has now called the US to provide help in its ongoing investigation. "Considering the small amount of experience and the lack of research means, Nicaragua desires to request the good offices of the (US) embassy to get the support of the US Geological Survey", Deputy Foreign Minister Orlando Gomez said in a letter to US Ambassador in Managua Phyllis Powers.

The Scientific Association of Nicaraguan Astronomers and Astrophysicists has refused the possibility of the meteorite to have any association with asteroid 2014RC.

However, Nicaraguan government scientists are of the belief that the meteorite is highly likely to be a fragment of 2014RC. They believe so because the impact and the close passage of the asteroid over the southwestern United States occurred at the same time.

The impact was so strong that a crater measuring 12 meters in diameter and 5.5 meters in depth was created near Managua's Augusto C. Sandino International Airport. The meteorite struck the region at 11:04 p. m. on Saturday, according to Nicaraguan government officials.

An official report has revealed that the meteorite's impact and the shock wave from it that lasted 16 seconds. The data was registered by 24 seismic stations.

Nicaraguan scientists have not been able to determine the composition, size or exact flight path of the space rock as of now. Currently, NASA along with the Nicaraguan commission is endeavoring to find an explanation for the formation of the crater soon and provide exact details of the crash.

Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said that it requires to generate a very bright fireball for creating such a big hole, but nothing of that sort was reported despite the population, which has made him very skeptical.