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Hi
All,
Here's
a translation of that Swedish mystery hole story by a bilingual
Swedish
friend
of mine (Bj�rn Gimle), along with a few additional remarks (location
info,
phone
#'s):
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The picture (and story) originally
appeared in �stersunds-Posten .
"Meteorite may have hit ground in
H�rjedalen" (one of Sweden's 25 counties)
An unexplicable hole in the ground, along
with eye witness reports about a fireball
in the sky, may indicate that a meteorite
hit Vem�n, NW of Sveg, writes
�stersunds-Posten.
Reports from witnesses are equivalent.
>From different places in H�rjedalen, at
around 7 am on Friday a bright light, and
a spherical object were observed,
that fell to ground with high speed.
- I have never seen anything like it. I
first reacted to the light, since it was
shining brightly, although it was quite
light outside, reports one eyewitness.
Looked strange
Saturday Jan-Evert Persson in Vem�n
discovered, in the outskirts of the village,
a hole, which could have been caused by a
meteorite hit.
- It looked strange. I had to stop to
check what it was all about, explains
Jan-Evert. He could
quickly establish that something had fallen down
from above with violent force. The object
formed a hole of about 80 cm
diameter and disappeared into the ground.
Soil was spread like from a
small bomb around the spot.
May remain
At Museum of Natural History
(Frescativ�gen 40, SE-104 05 Stockholm,
+46-8-519 54 000, www.nrm.se) experts report that if a meteorite
caused
the hole in the ground, it probably
remains there.
Meteorites should not
be confused with meteors, so small that
they completely melt and gasificate
(disintegrate) in the atmosphere. Meteorites can
easily be identified by an
expert, among other things by the thin
black melted crust
(fusion crust)
formed during deceleration through the
atmosphere.
TT (Swedish news agency) published
2002-02-20 |
Title: FW: Swedish meteorite fall?
