Forwarding this to the list on behalf of Marko Pekkola from URSA
astronomical association ;
Dear receivers of this list,
I am not a member of list and I dont know if my message will reach you,
but I would like to say a couple of things before something worse happens.
Juhani Harjunharja IS NOT a chair of Ursa Astronomical association
of Finland (which has 12 700 members). Instead he is running a local star
group in a village high up in Lappland.
Harjunharja is a school teacher. He is an active, welcomed advocate for
astronomy teaching in schools. From his statements to the press one
can (and all of you can) deduct that he just does not happen to know
deeply this particular special field of astronomy. Somebody has invented
this thing and then the press has asked the local star club leader of what
is this thing. An then at some stage it goes to Reuters or what ever.
Please imagine the rest.
There´s already two versions out there. In the other one the "crater" is
50 meters, in the other 300 meters. I am waiting for the one in which
it has broadened to 30 kilometers (and has wiped out the mankind).
Best regards,
Marko Pekkola
Tähdet ja avaruus
Ursa astronomical association
300 meter crater, only 1 kilometer from the nearest town! Bull%$%$. Give me a
break, anything that would make a 300 meter crater would have taken the
village with it.
Not a meteorite, end of story. Likely some kind of gas explosion.
mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 8:38 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Any of you collectors also divers?
http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=11281&group=General
Meteorite suspected of hitting river in northern Finland
30.12.2005 at 16:10
A large explosion crater found in the Mantokoski river in Utsjoki, northern
Finland, may be caused
by a meteorite, said Juhani Harjunharja, chair of the Ursa astronomical
association, in a statement
Friday.
The crater has an estimated diameter of as much as 300 meters. Samples are
being sent to the
University of Oulu for examination. The possibility of the crater being
caused by the remnant of a
satellite has not been ruled out.
"For my part I am strongly leaning towards the opinion that it is a
meteorite", Mr Harjunharja said.
The impact zone is approximately one kilometre from the closest settled area.
It is estimated that
the impact occurred before Christmas.
/STT/
© Copyright STT 2005
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