Hello, all,
spent with my friend about two weeks in Irkutsk lately and we also
made a few days trip to Bodaibo-area (very large indeed) to meet
some local gold-diggers.
The locals don´t have more information about the case, and as I told,
the potential falling area is huge, travelling is difficult, gold-miners are
not most friendly for strangers and so on. So I suppose, this case will
stay unsolved, if there is not someone willing to put some millions for
the expedition with couple of planes, helicopters, trucks and so on...
And in fact even that doesn´t quarantee anything.
Siberia is a strange place, and there happen strange things. And it´s also
true, there´s so much to find, you can in fact find, what you are looking
for, as somebody wrote some time ago on the list.
take care,
pekka
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Robert and others,
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.
This might have been a smaller scale Tunguska-like event? Much more work on
the site it is needed for sure.
John
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:25:57 +0400
From: "Andrei Ol'khovatov"
Subject: (meteorobs) The Vitim event and more
Dear All,
Expeditions have returned from the Vitim bolide
epicenter. No fragments were discovered. Some samples
of soil etc. were taken to analyse in labs.
Along the trajectory numerous small and fierce
forest-falls were discovered with unknown origin.
In my opinion, it is not clear whether they exist just
in there (and absent in other areas), as the
expeditions (as I understand from brief reports) were
just along the trajectory. Hoping that more detailed
info will appear soon.
Here is a fresh "meteorite impact" article on
"something" another:
http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0308/12/c01-242704.htm
Despite that it i s not clear "what it was", it sounds
interesting to investigate.
Best wishes,
Andrei Ol'khovatov
Russia, Moscow
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