(meteorobs) Re: claimed meteorite fall in Bangladesh

Ed Cannon ecannon at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Mar 10 01:48:57 EST 2006


Here is a much more detailed story about this January 31
event, with more photos, on the website of the Bangladesh
Astronomical Society:

http://www.bangastrosociety.org/news_meteroite_2006.html

One thing it mentions is that one of the first witnesses
to the site reported smelly fumes emanating from the hole
at the impact site.  People heard unusual sounds at the
time of the impact.  The story explains that the police
dug about three feet to find the ferrous rock.  At the
end it mentions that the last (known) meteorite fall in
what is now Bangladesh was in 1940.

Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA



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