[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Crash Site Found In Siberia

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:35 2004
Message-ID: <002601c32d1e$79d42180$68374451_at_HAL>

Below is a message from Andrei Olkhovatov to the meteorobs mailing list
about this.

- Marco

 ---forwarded message---

> I talked a couple days ago with a person who had talked by phone with a
> leader of Kosmopoisk (by the way, this is organization on research of
UFOs,
> etc.). The person did retell me the conversation. The leader phoned from
the
> Mama settlement area. The expedition was in taiga. It was told that about
2
> areas of the forest fall and tree-burning with dimensions 10 by 6 and 15
by
> 8 kilometers were discovered. No words about the discovered meteorite
> fragments were told. So I hope that they discovered them within the last
2
> days... The problem is that such large areas of destruction hardly
conform
> with a moderate size of the hypothetical meteorite (meteoroid), so the
> question "how is the devastation connected with the Vitim bolide?" must be
> investigated. As I know, there is a geology-associated person in the
> expedition, but I don't know the person's experience with meteorites.
> We can just wait for more detailed info.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andrei Ol'khovatov
> Russia, Moscow
>
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Received on Sat 07 Jun 2003 01:58:25 PM PDT