I've pretty much come to the conclusion that when "India" and
"meteorite" appear in the same story, it's going to be rubbish. I wonder
if there's a single "scientist" in India who knows a thing about
meteoritics?
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:09 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite Fell In Their
Courtyard inIndia
http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=81984
Meteorite falls in Jaipur house
Sahara Samay (India)
August 8, 2007
Jaipur, Aug 8: A family in Jaipur told the scientists of Geological
Survey of India (GSI) here that a meteorite fell in the courtyard of
their home on Monday evening, Sahara Samay sources said.
A female member of the family told that a piece of sparkling stone
fell
in her home on Monday evening. I continued to look at it in awe for
sometime before I went near it, she added.
However, the scientists of Geological Survey of India have said that
the
piece of sparkling stone does not appear to a meteorite. Even a
meteorite of small size can cause a big damage, said Dinkar
Srivastava,
a scientist.
He said that the speed of meteorite is several thousand kilometres per
second and even a small meteorite is usually bigger in size than the
one
found in a home here.
He further added that the GSI could be able to say anything only after
testing the piece of stone or meteorite.
It is worth noting here a similar sparkling stone was found in a
village
in Sangrur district of Punjab a couple of days ago.
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