[meteorite-list] Possible meteorite fall in Northeast Brazil

From: Mike Fowler <mqfowler_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Mar 7 16:21:44 2006
Message-ID: <704282C9-7547-4719-B51E-BFABA25FF3CC_at_mac.com>

Below a somewhat polished up version of the Babelfish translation of
the Portuguese account below.

Mike Fowler
Chicago


> Meteorite fall generates fire ball in the sky of the Bahia, Brazil
>
> A meteorite that fell in the city of Saint Antonio de Jesus, in
> Bahia, (a state in the North East of Brazil)
> yesterday night, opened a crater in forest and scared the
> inhabitants of the region.
> The fall generated a fire ball in the sky and many inhabitants had
> thought that it was about the fall of an airplane.
> The police received numerous phone calls yesterday night,
> informing them of an accident.
> When they had arrived at the scene, the policemen only sighted a
> crater and burnt and knocked down twigs of trees.
> Technicians of the Antares Observatory, of the city of Feira de
> Santana, went to the scene
> to get samples of the material for analysis.
>
>
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI908174-EI306,00.html

> Queda de meteorito gera bola de fogo no c?u da BA
>
> Um meteorito que caiu na cidade de Santo Ant?nio de Jesus, na
> Bahia, na noite de ontem, abriu uma cratera no meio da mata e
> assustou os moradores da regi?o. A queda gerou uma bola de fogo no
> c?u e muitos moradores pensaram que se tratava da queda de um avi?o.
> A pol?cia recebeu diversos telefonemas na noite de ontem, avisando
> sobre um acidente. Quando chegaram ao local, os policiais avistaram
> somente uma cratera e galhos de ?rvores queimados e derrubados.
> T?cnicos do Observat?rio Antares, do munic?pio de Feira de Santana,
> est?o no local para procurar amostras do material para an?lise.
Received on Tue 07 Mar 2006 04:21:20 PM PST