[meteorite-list] Re: Possible meteorite fall in Northeast Brazil (forwarded message from Wilton Caravalho)

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 07:28:06 2006
Message-ID: <20060310122803.2617.qmail_at_web26205.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

How it is wanted demonstrator, Wilton its another
expert of brasilian meteorites...now we waith the
answer of mr.Lautaro seen its in this list.

Matteo

--- Mark Van Tomme <markvantomme_at_yahoo.com> ha
scritto:

>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Would you please post this message for me.
>
> It seems I am facing a problem with messages I send
> which are not being
> posted.
>
> Thanks
>
> Wilton
> Message to be posted:
>
>
> Subject: Do meteorites start fires?
>
> By 7:00 PM, last Monday, a fireball was seen
> "exploding" over a rural
> area
> in Brazil. Next day the Press just aired and wrote
> that a meteorite
> felt and
> set at least five fires in a large area close by a
> highway.
>
> Until now no fragments of meteorite or space junk
> has
> been found.
>
> Yesterday, Wednesday, I have been at the site and
> found only ash,
> burned
> trees and bushes. Local people are searching the
> area.
> One of them
> found a
> "stone with a black coating" which was promptly
> photographed and
> published
> by newspapers as a meteorite. I examined a fragment
> of
> that stone and
> found
> that it is just sandstone. No doubt about that: two
> geologists also
> have the
> same opinion after examined the sample I got from
> the
> finder. There is
> no
> crater at all. Just a hole 29 cm long and 40 cm deep
> where nothing was
> found.
>
> I believe that meteorites do not start a fire as
> Nininger wrote in the
> book
> Ask a question about meteorites (1961, 1969 pages 8
> and 9)
>
> "Meteorites do not start fires even when they fall
> into some easily
> combustible material such as dry grass or straw.
> Meteorites do not
> reach the
> ground in blazing condition.* (The one exception to
> this rule is the
> extremely rare crater-forming meteorite which is so
> huge that it
> resists the
> braking effect of atmospheric friction and explodes
> upon reaching the
> earth."
>
> I will visit the site again next Sunday looking for
> evidences that the
> fires
> people saw just after the fireball almost silent
> "explosion" were not
> started by a meteorite fall.
>
> Is there any occurence of meteorites which started
> fires?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Van Tomme" <markvantomme_at_yahoo.com>
> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:48 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible meteorite fall in
> Northeast Brazil
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,below is the link to a brazilian site
> reporting
> on a possible meteorite fall yesterday in the town
> of
> Santo Ant?nio de Jesus,State of Bahia,Northeast
> Brazil.
> It's in Portuguese sorry but it basically says that
> a
> "fireball" has created a crater and caused panic
> among
> the population and that the local astronomical club
> was looking for samples.
>
>
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI908174-EI306,00.html
>
> Regards
>
> Mark Van Tomme
>
>
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