[meteorite-list] Chinese meteorite fall--any ideas on which one?
From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <106482.17517.qm_at_web53208.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Dear List, Found this in the Chinese news. No year was given. Meteorite crash lands just 2m from farm worker A meteorite formed some 4.6 billion years ago, landed on the banks of a fish pond in Heihe, Heilongjiang, on May 27 right in front of a worker, Song. "That evening, the meteorite with its largest pieces the size of an ordinary steamed-bread, struck the bank with tremendous force and sound, creating a crater just 2 meters from me," Song said. "I tremble at the very thought of it." "As far as I know, the distance between where the meteorite landed and its witness is the closest we have seen in this country," Zhang Baolin, an expert from the Beijing Planetarium, said. (Beijing Evening News) Dirk Ross...Tokyo Received on Thu 01 May 2008 08:42:55 PM PDT |
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