[meteorite-list] Boulder-Size Meteor Almost Struck Australia?

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:22 2004
Message-ID: <3D78F09D.8E415D5E_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Robert Verish wrote:

> Regarding this article about Australia getting "Almost
> Struck", if this object was large enough and slow
> enough (to go sub-sonic) to produce "sonic booms",
> then Australia most assuredly DID get struck by a
> meteorite.

Hello All!

Just got an article in German which Michael Buckler had sent and was
about to translate when Bob Verish mailed his English version of the
event. The German dpa text mentions fire, smoke trails (note the
plural!), thunder, and there were even reports of the ground shaking.

> What a waste. There's another meteorite that won't get searched.

I do hope that Bob is wrong here because the German text says:

"Astronomers are looking everywhere for potential
impact sites of the meteorite's fragments."


Cheers,

Bernd
Received on Fri 06 Sep 2002 02:14:53 PM PDT