[meteorite-list] Re:Kaali meteorite - Estonia, 400BC?

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:30 2004
Message-ID: <20020603180343.63822.qmail_at_web11601.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi all -

If anyone has MAPS at hand, I would be most interested
in the citations of Tacitus and Pytheas.

best wishes -
ep


--- Bernd Pauli HD
<bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> STUARTATK_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> > Doing some research for a radio slot, and am
> intrigued by the "Kaali"
> > meteorite which fell in Estonia around 400BC; in
> the brief net
> > searches I've done so far I've found intriguing
> references to the Sun
> > being blocked out by the impact, localised
> environmental devastation
> > and even "human casualties"... Couple of websites
> say that there's a
> > large crater in Estonia, and several (as many as
> 8?) smaller craters
> > nearby, but am just wondering if anyone out there
> has any more
> > specific info about this impact? Thanks in advance
> for all info /
> > help, Stu
>
> Hello Stu and List,
>
> Here are two scientifically reliable references:
>
> RASMUSSEN K.L. et al. (2000) The age of the
> Kaalijärv meteorite
> craters (MAPS 35-5, 2000, pp. 1067-1071, excerpt):
>
> 400-370 B.C. at ± 1o / The nine Kaalijärv craters
> on the Estonian
> island of Saaremaa (Ösel) were caused by the impact
> of a fragmented IAB
> iron meteorite, of which several masses have been
> recovered totalling
> about 2.5 kg. The largest piece recovered so far
> weighs 38.4 gr (Raukas
> et al., 1999).
>
> VESKI S. et al. (2001) Ecological catastrophe in
> connection with the
> impact of the Kaali Meteorite about 800-400 BC on
> the island of
> Saaremaa, Estonia (MAPS 36-10, 2001 pp. 1367-1375,
> excerpt):
>
> About 800-400 B.C. a meteoroid hit a then relatively
> densely populated
> island, forming the Kaali meteorite impact craters.
> Unfortunately the
> people living at that time on the island of Saaremaa
> were illiterate and
> we have no direct written record of the impact
> event. Indirect written
> historical records interpreted as describing the
> Kaali meteorite blast
> event come from Tacitus (1942) and Pytheas from
> Massalia.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
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