The last time I encountered something like the following it had been
suggested years ago in a Reuters story that the impact of a meteorite
(originating from a meteor shower) destroyed a home and started a
fire that killed two young children in Columbia. After a little
digging, I learned there was no electrical power supplied to the home
(located in a slum) and purportedly no accelerant. I suppose because
my bro is a forensic psychiatrist with an expertise in infanticide
that I immediately concluded that dear-ole-dad used "the meteor
started the fire" excuse to kill his kids. Reuters put me in touch
with a local paper who put me in touch with the local police. Dad
later confessed to the crime.
A bolide creating an arc of blazing light cannot land near where it
was observed; only bolides that seem largely stationary in the sky
and grow larger with the passage of time could pay a visit to your
doorstep.
Wonder who wanted to kill grandpa---or maybe he was sneaking a cig
and feel asleep dreaming of (fill in blank).
On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Ron Baalke wrote:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?
type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-10-20T142152Z_01_L20298092_RTRIDST_0
_OUKOE-UK-GERMANY-METEOR.XML&WTmodLoc=NewsLanding-C11-Odd-3
German cottage destroyed by meteor
Reuters
October 20, 2006
BERLIN (Reuters) - A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and
injured
a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor and witnesses saw an
arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said on Friday.
Burkhard Rick, a spokesman for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn,
said
the fire gutted the cottage and badly burnt the man's hands and
face in
the incident on October 10.
"We sought assistance from Bochum observatory and they noted that at
that particular moment the earth was near a field of meteoroid
splinter
and it could be assumed that particles had entered the atmosphere,"
he said.
"The particles usually don't reach the surface because they
disintegrate
in the atmosphere," he added. "But some can make it to the ground. We
believe this was a bolide (meteoric fireball) with a size of no more
than 10 mm."
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