http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2792060&startrow=1&date=2002-10-16&do_alert=0 LARGE CELESTIAL BODY FALLS IN SIBERIA By Eduard Puzyrev Russian Information Agency Novosti October 16, 2002 MOSCOW -- This week a scientific expedition will make for the site where on September 24 a large celestial body fell in the taiga forest near the Bodaibo settlement in the Irkutsk region in East Siberia. On Wednesday the Astronomy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that, according to witnesses, "a fiery trail accompanied by drone" was observed during the fall. People in Bodaibo, Balakhninski and other places located dozens of kilometers away from the site felt Earth tremours like in a quake. After that luminance could be observed above the site from over 100 kilometers away. "We have no doubt that a large meteorite fell on September 24", said a staffer of the Astronomy Institute. According to him, the celestial body is unrelated to unidentified flying objects as proved by the fact that the other day the United States Department of Defense published information saying that on September 24 an American satellite group registered the entry of a bright body into the Earth atmosphere at an altitude of 62 kilometers. The American military say that, approaching the Earth, the body exploded 30 kilometers above it at 58.21 Northern latitude and 113.46 Eastern longitude. Specialists say the yield of the explosion was equivalent to 200 TNT. "It is clear that a piece of a meteorite unburnt in the Earth atmosphere has fallen near Bodaibo", said the Astronomy Institute. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
