[meteorite-list] India Village Has A Visitor From The Sky

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:44 2004
Message-ID: <200311042242.OAA09343_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_444933,0009.htm

UP village has visitor from the sky
Vasishtha Bharadwaj
Hindustan Times (India)
November 3, 2003

Muzaffarnagar - Residents of Kasauli village near Muzaffarnagar had
a surprise on Monday when a meteorite landed on a local field.

Subedar Dhyansingh of Kasauli said he first heard a sound similar to
that of a passing aeroplane. When he looked up, Dhyansingh saw a
"strange object" falling on a nearby field.

The villagers found that the object had made a small crater in the
field. They reported the matter to the police, who dug the object out
and took it to the office of SSP Navneet Sikera.

The object turned out to be a meteorite. Its recovery has spurred
activity in geological circles.

Sikera said teams from the Geological Survey of India, Dehra Dun,
Physics Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and IIT, Roorkee are scheduled
to arrive here shortly to examine the meteorite.

R.P. Singh, vice-chancellor of Chaudhury Charan Singh University,
Meerut, has pronounced the 19-kg meteorite as a `rare find.'

He said that since meteors disintegrate after entering the earth's
atmosphere, it is likely that more such fragments may be found soon.
Received on Tue 04 Nov 2003 05:42:09 PM PST