[meteorite-list] Large Meteorite Fragments Found In Siberia

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:34 2004
Message-ID: <200306061903.MAA05785_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=3260034&startrow=1&date=2003-06-06&do_alert=0

LARGE METEORITE FRAGMENTS FOUND IN SIBERIA
Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 6, 2003

MOSCOW (RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT EDUARD PUZYREV) - The
site and fragments of a large meteorite which fell on the earth in
September 2002 had been found in Siberia, said the Russian Academy
of Sciences on Friday.

"Prospectors from the Kosmopoisk expedition have spotted a
100,000-square-kilometer part of the taiga with burnt and fallen
trees. It is found 60 kilometers from the Mama village near the
Vitim river," said the academy.

The precise coordinates have been fixed only now because deep snow
hindered work before.

Now scientists can get down to a more detailed study of the
meteorite. The first fragments of the celestial body have already
been found.

When the meteorite was falling, people in many places near the
Bodaibo and Mama villages felt earth tremors as in an earthquake.
They also "heard roar and splashes of light above the taiga forest
far away." The passage of "a large luminous object" in the
terrestrial atmosphere was also registered by American satellites.

The Russian Academy of Sciences does not rule out that, after the
1908 fall of the Tunguska meteorite, the new one can be the largest
of meteorites which have fallen on earth over the last 95 years.
Received on Fri 06 Jun 2003 03:03:09 PM PDT