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Russian scientists check giant crater reportedly left by meteorite channelnewsasia.com June 20, 2003 Russian scientists say they have reached the place where a big meteorite reportedly fell in the Siberian taiga in September last year. The expedition, organised by Russia's International Scientific Research Group Kosmopoisk, arrived in the area, to the north of the Russian city of Irkutsk. The meteorite, which the Russians called Vitim, fell 1100 km from Irkutsk in Siberia on September 25 last year in or near the wildlife preserve of Vitimsky on the Vitim River. Witnesses at the nearby Mama airport reported at the time that the filament lamps of a chandelier there glowed to half their intensity at the time of the meteorite's flight, although the entire settlement was devoid of electrical power supply that night. Initial reports stated the path of the fireball was tracked by a US Air Force satellite and this track provided initial geographic coordinates for the search of the meteorite. The coordinator of the International Scientific Research Group Kosmopoisk said his group was able to locate a wide expanse of burnt out trees, violently uprooted tree stems and heavily scorched taiga woods which they believe is the place where the meteorite fell. He said he now believes at least two meteorites fell that night - not one as was previously believed. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
