I will let the experts here debate this but, from the very beginning,
I thought this story sounded familiar. In December 1997, the
Internet was rife with rumours of a huge meteorite crashing in
Greenland. As the days and the weeks went on, the size of the
meteorite was considerably downsized
Deboarh and List,
Speaking of similar stories: A genuine fireball was report on Nov 22,
1996. On December 15, 1996, Associated Press issued a report entitled
Meteorite blasts 165-foot-wide crater in Honduras. An expedition in
Feb. 1997 (http://www.astro.cz/~borovic/honduras.htm) found
Sterling K. Webb writes:
You don't get a seismic event from an airburst unless it
really big or very close to the ground (and to get close to
the ground, you have to be big, so it's the same thing).
I dunno a lot about the physics of a fireball, but I remember
reading the paper: Entry
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