[meteorite-list] Spanish bolide

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:59 2004
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"the ground shook under my feet due to the impact"



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RENEDO OF VALDERADUEY (LEON). BETHLEHEM MOLLEDA

It is left neither sign, nor the smaller track of the fire ball that in
afternoon of Sunday the thousand of Spaniards flying over peninsular
skies sighted. And that that many witnesses warned the services of the
emergency of which the luminous object had fallen to the ground, in
particular, and most probable, in a bordering area between the provinces
of Leon and Palencia. Nevertheless, the efforts of the Civil Guard to
find yesterday in that zone some embers caused by a possible collision,
or some type of fragment arrived from the space, has not obtained result
some. Neither in Renedo de Valderaduey (Leon), nor in I keep (Palencia)
nor in Almarza (Soria), where the testimonies assured that the collision
had taken place, appeared rest some del cosmic phenomenon.

In Renedo de Valderaduey, a small leonine locality as soon as a hundred
of inhabitants, does not leave the astonishment. The calm is had lost
since the past Sunday the crossfire ball over its heads. Passed the ten
in the morning of yesterday Monday, a helicopter of XII the Zone of the
Civil Guard of Leon flew over the zone to try to locate to the stone
piece that, according to some witnesses, fell closely together of the
town, to about three kilometers, in a denominated place Valdelascasas,
to where several patrols of Meritorious as well as the tens of neighbors
approached and peculiar that was not wanted to lose so strange phenomenon.

The workings search were centered a radius of ten kilometers to the
south of this locality, located near Palencia, and they followed one
another during the day of yesterday, although to last hour sources of
the Civil Guard they assured to ABC that did not have order to continue
patrolling the zone, reason why gave by finalized the works the delay of
new findings that made resume the search.

Dry blows

Ever since such phenomenon happened, in Renedo de Valderaduey it is not
spoken of another thing. One of the protagonists of the event was a
shepherd, Ricardo Valley, that assures that it saw fall "to the
meteorite that". "I saw black fire and one behind humareda. After
passing humareda, soon after, they stuck strong roars. They were five
dry blows. The noise was similar to the one of a pump ", said the
shepherd shortly after declaring before the Civil Guard. The supposed
meteorite crossed this locality two minutes before it made an airplane,
to which "did not take to him ahead nearly", it assured Valley.

The facts happened towards the six of afternoon, when the town in the
heat of took a good scare. From the possibility that operated the
heating of the "Teleclub", where the young people meet, until an
airplane who crashed, included the fan of hypotheses shuffled by the
hundred of neighbors of this leonine locality.

The cosmic phenomenon agreed with a small fire registered to the north
of the town, to which several neighbors related to the meteorite,
although the Civil Guard discarded that bond existed some. Apparently,
one was one burns of strubbles that a neighbor had begun to do hours
before the incident.

Roar

One of the details that have made think that the meteorite fell in some
place between the provinces of Leon and Palencia is the strong roar
caused by the fire ball, in that they agree most of the visual witnesses
of the North zone of Palencia. One of them, Vicente Martín, who was
hunting in the Palentina Mountain, assures to have seen "a sparkle of
light very hard followed of an explosion similar to the detonation of
explosives in a mine". Another hunter, in this case of the zone of
Saldaña, explains that "the ground shook under my feet due to the
impact". But later, one disappeared and the meteorite seems to have
evaporated, informs R. G.

Several people also saw the rest of the meteorite in the province of
Soria. Neighbors of localities like Almarza, Almazán, Medinaceli or
Round Quintana confirmed that they had contemplated in the sky "an
enormous light orange, like a descendent flare". The assistant
representative of the Government, Carlos of the House, explained that
"officially we do not have anything", although, the Civil Guard had
unfolded average to verify the place by where the rest of the meteorite
could have fallen. But, testimonies separate, the agents did not locate
any of the fragments of the meteorite that supposedly could have hit in
Soria, informs M. H.

Before the commotion caused by this cosmic phenomenon, the Superior
Council of Scientific researches has taken positions in the subject and
in an official notice he informs into which according to the data of
direct witnesses and official institutions all he makes think that he is
"typical the luminance and acoustic fenomenología of a bolide (he is
called thus to any object, and its associated phenomenon, that enters
the terrestrial atmosphere)". And it adds that, as a result of the
"disintegration that takes place by the friction with the terrestrial
atmosphere, the probabilities of finding fragments are very little and
it is not possible to be spoken of meteorítica fall until rest do not
exist that verify the extraterrestrial nature of the samples". The CSIC
says that the Center of Astrobiology will be in charge to make the
necessary analyses "to the samples that could appear".

An object of great dimensions

An geologist of that organism, Jesus Marti'nez-Fri'as, in declarations
to Efe, said that the fact that the sightings have followed one another
in places very moved away to each other aims at that it is an object "of
great dimensions", and it was ventured to clarify that it could have the
size "of a villa". According to this scientist, the description that
people do of the object is "the typical one" of this type of sightings
in any place of the world, when talking about to a ball of fire and to
the wake formed by this one. It needed that in its fall, the object is
fragmented, which also could explain that it has been seen in so diverse
places.

Marti'nez-Fri'as indicated that the meteorites that recover come
generally from the asteroid belt that they orbit between Mars and
Jupiter, and said that some of them make eccentric orbits and more
approach the Earth, until being catched by the gravity, which causes
that the bolide forms. Other meteorites, nevertheless, come from Mars or
the Moon.



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ABC.es


The investigators discard that the craters of River basin must to the
fall of a meteorite


River basin

The experts of the Superior Council of Investigaciones Cienti'ficas
(CSIC) have determined that the craters found in Minglanilla (River
basin), do not have relation with a meteorítico impact and the possible
fall of rest of the fire ball that was Vista in several provinces the
past Sunday. According to the Subdelegation informed into the Government
of River basin, the investigators of the CSIC that moved to Minglanilla
tonight have discarded that the found craters of small size in the zone
have been originated by a cosmic phenomenon of
characteristics of the impact of a meteor.

Concretely, the results of the detailed inspection of the land "indicate
that it does not exist relation with the materials, structures and
effects associated with impacts of meteorítico type", added the
Subdelegation of the Government in River basin. However, he emphasized
that the fact that a meteorítico impact has discarded does not imply
that the investigations in other zones of the peninsula become
paralyzed, although the experts have reiterated who the probability of
finding fragments is little.

The investigation has been carried out after in the afternoon-night of
the last Sunday a fire in strange circumstances in the place was
originated "Corral of Juan Sayas", of Minglanilla. Several people
assured that they had seen fall in the zone some of the "fire balls"
that afternoon flew over of Sunday the Spanish airspace.

For this reason, the Command of the Civil Guard of River basin decided
to inspect meticulous of the zone to the light of the day, in whose
course a series of craters of small size within the perimeter of the
fire was discovered, in which 3 hectares burned with scrub and mounts low.

Once discovered and before the possibility that they could be related to
the cosmic phenomenon registered Sunday, it was decided to start up the
protocol anticipated for similar situations, that it includes among
other performances to surround the zone of the possible impact and to
give warning to the CSIC in case it considers advisable to carry out an
investigation. The CSIC decided to send a team of investigators headed
by the geologist and person in charge of the Laboratory of Certification
and Meteorite Identification of the Center of Astrobiology, Jesus
Marti'nez-Fri'as, who after examining the zone has determined that in
her there are indications of meteorítico no impact.

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Pekka Savolainen
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