[meteorite-list] Breaking News - UK Earth-hugging Asteroid Circled the Earth and Hit Again

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:09:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1348772968.23937.YahooMailClassic_at_web141403.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Press Release - For Immediate Release 27SEP2012

UK Earth-hugging Asteroid Circled the Earth and Hit Again

The following news is published jointly by T?hdet ja avaruus -magazine of
Finland and The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News in Tokyo, Japan.
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UK Earth-hugging Asteroid Circled the Earth and Hit Again

According to the modeling done by Finnish mathematician Esko Lyytinen, the big UK fireball of the 21st of September was captured by Earth`s gravity.

After one circle around the Earth one of the remnants seems to have re-entered the skies over North America.

"It looks now that the fireball witnessed 155 minutes later in US and Canada, may have been one fragment of the British fireball, most probably the biggest one. This was its second entry into the Earth`s atmosphere", Lyytinen says. "If so, this is historical scientific observation, but it needs to be confirmed." (more)...

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/09/breaking-news-uk-earth-hugging-asteroid.html

Dirk Ross...Tokyo
Received on Thu 27 Sep 2012 03:09:28 PM PDT