[meteorite-list] Nahkla dog story again reported as fact

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:30:01 2004
Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C86901B4EDA4_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>

Hi All,

The dead dog story continues to recirculate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3146692.stm

Meteorite wrecks houses in India
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At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite
crashed to Earth in eastern India.

Reports say hundreds of people in the state of Orissa panicked when the
fireball streamed across the sky.

Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying
several houses.

An official in Orissa said the authorities were assessing the damage
and trying to recover what was left of the meteor.

Reports from Kendrapara district in Orissa, where the meteor came to
Earth, said windows rattled as it passed overhead.

"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight
everywhere," one resident said.


Rarity
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Experts estimate about 100 tons of extraterrestrial dust grains fall to
earth each day.

Occasionally, a dark pebble or fist-size object will rain down, with
boulder-sized objects or bigger being a historical rarity.

The only recorded fatality from a meteor was an Egyptian dog that had
the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in 1911.

Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by
a meteorite from Mars.
Received on Mon 29 Sep 2003 04:11:23 PM PDT