El Paso Bolide of 1997

[Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli@lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Gene Marlin schrieb:

> Was the suspected meteorite fall near El Paso in 1997 ever recovered?

Hello Gene and List,

Mike Farmer kindly sent me the March 1999 edition of the "Smithsonian"
where I found the following info on the El Paso fireball:

KRAJICK KEVIN (1999) Mining for Meteorites (Smithsonian, March 1999, pp.
90-100, excerpt, p. 100):

Searches for the newest meteorites are becoming more imaginative, too.
When thousands of people saw a fireball explode in the sky somewhere
around El Paso, Texas, on October 9, 1997, U.S. and Canadian scientists
assembled to caculate its trajectory, speed and mass so they could
target possible fragments. Alan Hildebrand, a prominent planetary
scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, went door-to-door with
colleagues to interview witnesses and examine photographs and videos of
the phenomenon. They triangulated seismographs that had recorded the
blast. Then they called in the heavy artillery: a U.S. military network
of low-frequency microphones and light-sensing satellites designed for
detecting nuclear explosions and missile launches. Recently declassified
documents reveal that the devices also record big meteors; scientists
from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico got the data released.
After collating this information, scientists searched on foot for weeks
in the designated area and found ... nothing.


Best regards from sunny, summerly Germany,

Bernd

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