[meteorite-list] Meteor Causes Panic In India

From: Alexander Seidel <ase_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:30:01 2004
Message-ID: <3F76C542.8E11EC05_at_planet-interkom.de>

Ron Baalke quoted an Indian newspaper:

> Meteor causes panic in Orissa
> Chandigarh Tribune (India)
> September 27, 2003

> Remnants of the fireball had landed in a village under the Kaptipada police
> station in Mayurbhanj district starting a fire there......
 
> A report from Baripada said people saw two fireballs landing in Sudsudia
> village under the Kaptipada police station setting ablaze a thatched house...

Be that "true" or not, this could be more "oil on the lamps" of those
who support the hot-meteorites theory (...for the impact part, that is).

Apart from stories about fires: if this really was a meteorite that made
it to earth, it will be quite a tough one to get some of it into private
collections.

P.S.: could it have been a decaying satellite? I donīt have the update
files for the day this happened in India, but may be Rob Matson has -
who else, if not him? :-)

Alex
Berlin/Stade, Germany

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