thanx Ron for helping to describe the relative impact size... I don't think Serg was convinced the search done for meteorites was sufficient. With remoteness and lack of money being the handicaps so far.
John > > > > Serg from the Comet Meteorite Shop told me the same thing about Vitim at the > > Springfield show. He said that travel to the area was long and > > difficult...and that more money would be needed to do a serious investigation > > of the site. He did say they had soil to evaluate, and that the > > impact/explosion(?) damage to the area was significant. > > So, the initial reports of finding meteorite fragments at the site > were totally off the mark? > > It seems to me people had unreasonable high expectations. > The 'damage' to the area is sounding > more and more like a normal forest fire than an impact site. That's not > to say meteorites didn't fall, but that this is not looking like > another Tunguska event. > > > This might have been a smaller scale Tunguska-like event? Much more work on > > the site it is needed for sure. > > The main evidence against it being a Tunguska-like event is the DOD > satellite measurements. They indicate that this was more on > a scale of a Tagish Lake event, which incidently did not knock down any > trees. They should be looking for meteorites, and not be led off course > by burnt trees. > > Ron Baalke > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
