(meteorobs) A strange forest-fall in Russia

Arlene Carol arlene.carol at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 01:35:32 EDT 2005


Hi Andrei,
 Last year, we had an 'event' that looked remarkably similar
to this one. I took some photos of the damage to the olive
trees in the area that look like the damaged trees in the news
report.
Local tv reported that it was a 'hortum' that did the
 damage. In English, I think that translate more
accurately to a Twister...
 it covered a narrow area up the side of the mountain
and was about 2-3 square kilometers in area. 
 i'm certainly no expert, but i'd guess this one wasn't
a meteor either. 
 take care,
 arlene
south of troy, northern aegean

 On 7/7/05, Andrei Ol'khovatov <olkhov at mail.ru> wrote: 
> 
> Dear Roberto at al.,
> 
> No meteorites discovered, and a possibility that it was a meteorite is 
> considered as negligibly small. Hoping that soon authorities
> will release more data.
> 
> Best,
> Andrei
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roberto G." <md6648 at mclink.it>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) A strange forest-fall in Russia
> 
> 
> > From: "Andrei Ol'khovatov" <olkhov at mail.ru>
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> A strange forest fall was discovered in Russia near a settlement of
> > Medvezhii (Khabarovsk region, Russian Far East), which local
> >> authorities called first as "new Tunguska meteorite fell".
> >> According to first reports it is ~2 km accross. Reports about its 
> square
> > varies from 3 to 12 sq. km. There are reports that local
> >> residents heard some associated sounds and saw some luminous phenomena.
> > Authorities are investigating.
> >
> > CUT
> >
> >> Currently "the meteorite fall" is practically changed to
> > "tornado/whirlwind". Anyway, it is still preliminary, as there were no
> >> reports of anything resembling a tornado at all. As I wrote, 
> authorities
> > are investigating.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Andrei Ol'khovatov
> >
> > Andrei,
> >
> > if the forest fall it's so little it must to have an other cause that a 
> new
> > Tunguska because
> > a similar event must destroy a very big surface or the event should end 
> in
> > air without
> > damage in surface. Only in the case of a new Sikhote Alin can occur a
> > limited (!) forest
> > fall, but in the case of Sikhote Alin it was a iron meteorite with
> > fragmentation, the
> > inabitants of Medvezhii should find very easy pieces of iron, do they 
> found
> > this fragments?
> > Best greetings.
> > Roberto Gorelli
> >
> >
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