[meteorite-list] Re: Russian scientists unable to visit presumed meteorite site

From: geoking_at_notkin.net <geoking_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:56 2004
Message-ID: <v0422080db9c412ca8e42_at_[65.59.103.110]>

Thanks for the posts, John.

Exciting stuff, but I find these two statements -- both from the same
article -- to be more than a little contradictory:


>Polyakov said scientists were fearing the meteorite was a lump of ice
>that would melt away before an expedition came.


>the supposed meteorite had left a large crater
>surrounded by burned forest.


Now, how would an "ice meteorite" manage to burn a forest, I wonder?


Geoff N.
Received on Fri 04 Oct 2002 11:59:41 PM PDT