Interesting. This supports my belief that this was a relatively low
energy impact- a 2 meter object traveling at 1-2 km/s, not ablating. A
larger parent exploded in the air, contributing to or fully producing
the measured infrasound and seismic signal. A fragment survived and
produced the crater. The parent body protected that fragment, just as
the Sikhote-Alin fragments were protected by being part of a much larger
body until the last few seconds. I expect the estimate of the explosion
being 1km from the witness is on the short side; several kilometers is
more likely, and there's little doubt that most people are totally
incapable of accurately judging the distance to an event like this.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:35 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS
Hi, All,
I've found a Spanish document of an interview with
an inhabitant of Carancas, in particular their local leader.
He was interviewed in his native language, Aymara, by
a native Aymara speaker who has translated the interview
into Spanish...
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