[meteorite-list] Latvian Meteorite

From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:07 -0400
Message-ID: <f0a794130910260853t6b3da363vfa259dfe45c4c160_at_mail.gmail.com>

Apparently there is an underground natural gas fire that has been
going on in russia for some time. Its called 'the door to hell'.

The pictures on google images look pretty similar to this.

http://images.google.com/images?q=the+door+to+hell&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=MMTlStHxHNOntgfKmcDLCA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCIQsAQwAw

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Melanie Matthews
<spacewoman2775 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Meteorites don't continue burning after they fall as shown in the Youtube video (unless it fell onto something combustible which doesn't appear to be the case hear) which tells me this is probably a hoax.. But if this is true - could 2009 hold the world record for the number of witnessed falls (not counting showers of course) in one year?
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>> From: prairiecactus at rtcol.com
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:08:36 -0400
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Latvian Meteorite
>>
>> http://en.rian.ru/world/20091026/156588612.html
>>
>> Meteorite falls in northern Latvia, no one injured - local media
>>
>>
>>
>> RIGA, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - No one was injured after a meteorite fell
>> near a small town in northern Latvia on Sunday, local Latvian media
>> reported.
>>
>> According to media reports, the meteorite fell near a residential house on
>> the outskirts of Mazsalaca town in the Valmiera district of Latvia, leaving
>> a crater of some 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter and 10 meters (33 feet)
>> deep.
>>
>> A spokesperson for the Latvian State Fire and Rescue Service said that
>> rescuers and soldiers immediately cordoned off the territory, however, it is
>> still not clear whether it was an asteroid or a space satellite.
>>
>> "The territory has been immediately cordoned off as we still do not know
>> what fell down from the sky. According to preliminary information, it was a
>> meteorite. However, it is possible that it was a [space] satellite or its
>> fragment. A radioactive contamination is also possible," she said.
>>
>> A witness, who saw the object falling from the sky and leaving a burning
>> trace behind, said it was making a noise similar to the one of an aircraft
>> flying at a low altitude.
>>
>> On March 2 this year, a 35-meter asteroid came within 72,000 kilometers of
>> Earth. The size of the space rock was comparable to the asteroid that caused
>> the Tunguska disaster, but there was no danger of a collision.
>>
>> On June 30, 1908, an explosion equivalent to between 5 and 30 megatons of
>> TNT occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote region of
>> Russia's Siberia.
>>
>> The Tunguska blast flattened 80 million trees, destroying an area of around
>> 2,150 sq km (830 sq miles).
>>
>> It is assumed that a huge meteorite had hit the area, although research
>> expeditions failed to find an obvious crater.
>>
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>>
>> I don't know, that crater video looked kind of fakey to me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
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