>>That has the look of a percussion mark, to me. If a meteor was incandescent enough to be seen all the way to the
ground, we are talking about something quite large...in the range of ten tons or
more. This also would mean when it hit, it was traveling something in the
neighborhood of 9,000 mph or faster. When something this size and
velocity hits the earth, there should be one heck of a whack...Which comes
to my puzzlement...how come there are still healthy looking plants immediately
surrounding the "bleme" in the photo? I think there probably was a meteorite
dropped somewhere, but it was nowhere near the size to be seen hitting the
ground...unless a witness just happened to be standing nearby. I also doubt any
meteorite of lesser mass and velocity produced the so called "bleme".
george Zay
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