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Greenland

Greenland, Dec 9, 1997  -  remember THAT?!   Sure has been "upstaged" by a
certain Texas meteorite story......!       
I checked in with the Danish Center for Remote sensing (site below),

http://www.dcrs.dtu.dk/DCRS/Other_topics/meteo.html#LN

but the latest post they have is from this past February.  (reprinted below)
Does anyone have any, more current, info?

Gregory
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The EMISAR data have now been succesfully processed. The estimates of 
the end of the fireball trajectory have changed as more eyewitnesses 
have been interviewed. The latest estimate is, however, still within the 
mapped area. The images show numerous nunataks, crevasses, and moraine 
ridges in the area where fragments may have fallen. So far, we have not 
been able to locate any feature which appears related to the fireball. 
Since some recently interviewed eyewitnesses have reported that the 
meteor fragmented in the atmosphere there seems little hope of finding 
craters or fragments sufficiently large to be visible in the radar 
images. 
We have also studied a number of radar images recorded by the ERS-2 
satellite. These images were acquired before and after December 9th. We 
have used SAR interferometry to locate areas in the images where the 
surface has changed between the times where the two images were 
recorded. So far, this has proven unsuccesfull because the surface has 
changed throughout the area due to heavy snow fall. We do, however, 
still need to look at a few more images which could prove more usefull.
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