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

From: Dr. Svend Buhl <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 10:16:17 2006
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Matteo,

Sen?r Lautaro Correia had nothing to do with the report on the Bahia event as you could have easily found out by re-reading the post you are referring to. Sen?r Correia is the finder of one of three masses of the Santa Vitoria do Palmar meteorite. This is a completely different location, a completely different event.

The initial post on the Bahia event that you are referring to was sent in by list mmeber by Mark Van Tomme. If you re-read his post you will notice that he never claimed that any material was recovered.

You again preferred to renew your disrespectful attacks instead of consulting the list archive. This effort would have cost you a few seconds.

Svend

>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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