Thanks Ken,
Thanks for the links, great info! Wonder what is worth more,
the piece of Mars or the bones of the dog... Hope the bones never hit
Ebay...
Charlyv
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Charles,
Walter Branch has kept a detailed record of persons and things that
meteorites have reportedly struck:
http://www.branchmeteorites.com/metstruck.html
I also have list of newspaper accounts of meteorites killing persons:
http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/news1.html
To complicate matters, a hoaxer working for UP initiated
most of the early newspaper 'death by meteorite' stories:
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2003-March/018369.html
Is this work
taken with any seriousness in the scientific community?
I do not know. There have been so many hoaxes...
Unless stories are corroborated, I do not think they are taken
seriously.
I have not been privileged to read Rain of Iron and Ice but hope to
do so in future.
My reference Uh oh is to a unending debate between Kevin Kechinka and
Ron Baalke over the 1911 death of the Egyptian dog.
Best,
Ken
Charles R. Viau wrote:
I read Rain of Iron and Ice, by John S. Lewis recently. He claims
that
there is hard evidence that many people have been killed by meteorites
over the course of recorded history, especially in China, where the
most
detailed records of celestial events have been documented. Is this
work
taken with any seriousness in the scientific community? It even has a
recommendation written by Carl Sagan. I loved that book, and I think
it
is a must read for everyone who is interested in meteorites.
CharlyV
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No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for
causing the death of a dog, he said.
Uh oh. (that dog will never die!:)
kn
Ron Baalke wrote:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2600500a11,00.html
Great ball of fire lights up Aucklanders' lives
www.stuff.co.nz
06 August 2003
A spectacular fireball blazed across the northern sky yesterday, a
piece
of the more than 30,000 tonnes of the normally invisible space junk
that
hits Earth each year.
Observers in Auckland and from as far away as Whangarei described a
flaming, bright-red fireball with a long white tail shooting across
the
sky from the northeast just before 6pm.
One man in Auckland suburb Orakei, who reported the sight to One
Tree
Hill Stardome Observatory, said the meteor appeared to remain bright
as
it disappeared over the horizon.
Another man, who was driving towards the Auckland Harbour Bridge,
said
it was amazing. I saw the white light first and then it flared
into
a
green flash. I've never seen a green like it before.
Stardome spokeswoman Angela Doherty said the fireball, described as
having a lingering white tail, was a piece of either human
space junk or space rock that wandered just a bit too close to
Earth.
Wellington's Carter Observatory spokesman John Field said it would
be
difficult to gauge the size of the meteor but said it could have
been
as
big as a fist or the size of a person's head.
No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for
causing the death of a dog, he said.
Most space debris simply fell harmlessly and invisibly to the
ground,
heating up and burning as it entered the atmosphere before dropping
to
earth.
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