[meteorite-list] A meteorite fall in Estonia?
From: Tõnu Pani <tpani_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:18 2004 Message-ID: <3DE48035.3F5D36DF_at_ut.ee> --------------17E8AD598693D996E0C35188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hallo all! As quite often in the newspapers, there is something not correct. At moment Reet Tiirmaa and Ülo Kestlane from Tallinn are collecting the reports of eyewitnesses on Saaremaa and Vilsandi. There was a fireball over western part of Estonia. It was witnessed from small island Vilsandi, off the west coast of bigger island Saaremaa /in the old German literature and maps also as Oesel/. 58.23N, 21.49E http://www.atlas.ibs.ee A very brigt fireball was seen 20. Nov. 2002, 12.30GMT The fireball was seen during 7-8 sec in clear sky (sunshine) from SE to NW The very loud thunder-like noise followed ca 1,5 min later. *** In addition to this in the newspaper was also, that a meteorite ca 2-3 kg fell into sea and so one of the witnesses lost 300 000 USD Tõnu Pani > This sighting occurred the day after the Norway event: > > -------------- Forward Message ---------------- > > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:40:17 +0300 > From: "Andrei Ol'khovatov" <olkhov_at_mail.ru> > Subject: (meteorobs) A meteorite fall in Estonia? > > Dear All, > > Russian news agency just reported about an alleged > meteorite fall near the island Saaremaa (a settlement > Vilsandy ) on WEDNESDAY. The light was very bright. > It seems that it was over/into sea. > <http://www.presscenter.ru/index.php?subj=0&ch=1&id=176985> --------------17E8AD598693D996E0C35188 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hallo all! <br>As quite often in the newspapers, there is something not correct. <p>At moment Reet Tiirmaa and Ülo Kestlane from Tallinn are collecting the reports of eyewitnesses on Saaremaa and Vilsandi. <p>There was a fireball over western part of Estonia. It was witnessed from small island Vilsandi, off the west coast of bigger island Saaremaa /in the old German literature and maps also as Oesel/. <br>58.23N, 21.49E <br> <A HREF="http://www.atlas.ibs.ee">http://www.atlas.ibs.ee</A> <p>A very brigt fireball was seen 20. Nov. 2002, 12.30GMT <br>The fireball was seen during 7-8 sec in clear sky (sunshine) from SE to NW <br>The very loud thunder-like noise followed ca 1,5 min later. <br>*** <br>In addition to this in the newspaper was also, that a meteorite ca 2-<b>3 </b>kg fell into sea and so one of the witnesses lost 300 000 USD <p>Tõnu Pani <br> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>This sighting occurred the day after the Norway event: <p>-------------- Forward Message ---------------- <p>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:40:17 +0300 <br>From: "Andrei Ol'khovatov" <olkhov_at_mail.ru> <br>Subject: (meteorobs) A meteorite fall in Estonia? <p>Dear All, <p>Russian news agency just reported about an alleged <br>meteorite fall near the island Saaremaa (a settlement <br>Vilsandy ) on WEDNESDAY. The light was very bright. <br>It seems that it was over/into sea. <br><<a href="http://www.presscenter.ru/index.php?subj=0&ch=1&id=176985">http://www.presscenter.ru/index.php?subj=0&ch=1&id=176985</a>></blockquote> </html> --------------17E8AD598693D996E0C35188-- Received on Wed 27 Nov 2002 03:20:05 AM PST |
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