[meteorite-list] Large Celestrial Body Falls In Siberia

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:07:01 2004
Message-ID: <200210161849.LAA11014_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2792060&startrow=1&date=2002-10-16&do_alert=0

LARGE CELESTIAL BODY FALLS IN SIBERIA
By Eduard Puzyrev
Russian Information Agency Novosti
October 16, 2002

MOSCOW -- This week a scientific expedition will make for the site where on
September 24 a large celestial body fell in the taiga forest near the
Bodaibo settlement in the Irkutsk region in East Siberia.

On Wednesday the Astronomy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
reported that, according to witnesses, "a fiery trail accompanied by drone"
was observed during the fall. People in Bodaibo, Balakhninski and other
places located dozens of kilometers away from the site felt Earth tremours
like in a quake. After that luminance could be observed above the site from
over 100 kilometers away.

"We have no doubt that a large meteorite fell on September 24", said a
staffer of the Astronomy Institute.

According to him, the celestial body is unrelated to unidentified flying
objects as proved by the fact that the other day the United States Department
of Defense published information saying that on September 24 an American
satellite group registered the entry of a bright body into the Earth
atmosphere at an altitude of 62 kilometers.

The American military say that, approaching the Earth, the body exploded 30
kilometers above it at 58.21 Northern latitude and 113.46 Eastern longitude.
Specialists say the yield of the explosion was equivalent to 200 TNT.

"It is clear that a piece of a meteorite unburnt in the Earth atmosphere has
fallen near Bodaibo", said the Astronomy Institute.
Received on Wed 16 Oct 2002 02:49:36 PM PDT