Impacts that are audible are exceedingly rare events. Except for the utterly
bizarre, and possibly singular example of Carancas, I don't know of any
meteorite fall that was audible to anybody more than a few meters from the
impact (I would guess a few Sikhote-Alin craters produced a fair bit of
noise).
If people actually heard the impact when they were too far away to
immediately identify the site, this was a crater forming event- possible,
but not very likely. Far more likely is that people heard sonic booms
echoing around hills and valleys- sounds that would be far more impressive
(and "scarier") than any impact sound.
Of course, if there was a hypervelocity impact, people will be coming from
all over the world to study it- and there may well be no meteorites at all.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdelaziz Alhyane" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Chris Peterson"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Moroccan fall
Yes, poeple heard the impact and this is why they are scared, Aziz
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