[meteorite-list] Germany Meteorite?

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:22 2004
Message-ID: <003d01c38b31$c76eeda0$18c79f44_at_wbranch>

Many thanks to Bernd and Alexander for quick ad informative responses to
this question.

-Walter
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Walter Branch, Ph.D.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:53 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Germany Meteorite?


> > I could swear that in 1996-7-8 I heard that a meteorite hit
> > somewhere in Germany and that it measured 6 or 16 or
> > 60 feet in diameter. Can you confirm this? Why didn't it
> > get more pub?
>
> Hello Walter and List,
>
> There was an "unidentified flying object" in the early morning
> hours of Sept. 23, 1986. It was also sighted over Paris and
> in parts of Belgium. If it really was a cosmic intruder, it had a
> diameter of approximately 1 meter (ca. 3 feet), weighed about
> 1.5 tons.
>
> Then we had the so-called "Arheilgen incident" back in February
> of 1986 when an unidentified object hit a pond behind a house
> in Arheilgen near Darmstadt leaving leaving a hole approx. 80 cm
> in diameter in the middle of the pond and several smaller pits around
> this central hole. Nothing was found however nor could the Frankfurt
> airport authorities confirm the rumor that one of their passenger planes
> may have lost or dropped something.
>
> Then we have the Salzwedel (LL6) chondrite which fell in 1985 - only
> a single mass weighing 43 g was found in a wood after a fireball had
> been seen and the Trebbin (LL6) meteorite fall in 1988 when a mass
> weighing 1250g was recovered from a garden.
>
> Best Sunday
> regards,
>
> Bernd
>
> To: branchw_at_bellsouth.net
> Cc: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
>
>
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