(meteorobs) Claimed meteorite fall in Bahia, Brazil, on March 6

[Andrei Olkhovatov]

Dear All,

Could anybody help to obtain additional info on the Brazilian event (its UTC time, withness's descriptions, pictures, local 
contacts, etc. )?
You could e-mail me privately.

Thank you in advance,
Sincerely,
Andrei Ol'khovatov
Russia, Moscow

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Claimed meteorite fall in Bahia, Brazil, on March 6


> Found on the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum (paraphrased
> from the Portuguese news story with help from Babelfish):
>
> A meteorite fall has been reported in Bahia state, Brazil, on
> the evening of March 6.  Frightened people saw a fireball in
> the sky and reported a plane crash to the local police, who
> found only a crater and damage (including fire damage -- ahem!)
> to nearby trees. People from a nearby observatory were going to
> try to get samples for analysis [more on this below].
>
> Here's the B.A.U.T. Forum link:
>
> http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=39012
>
> Here's the news story linked to from the above page:
>
> http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI908174-EI306,00.html
>
> Here's a longer story in Portuguese (with video for subscribers
> to the website):
>
> http://jornalnacional.globo.com/Jornalismo/JN/0,,AA1150498-3586-425703,00.html
>
> This next one mentions other aspects of the story, including
> that the police found five holes in the ground (I found this
> one using the pair of search terms "meteorito" and "antonio de
> jesus" on Google, and the Google translation is pretty rough
> English and also amusing.):
>
> http://br.news.yahoo.com/060307/25/12ija.html
>
> The next link is to a follow-up story reporting that the
> people from the observatory didn't find any pieces of the
> meteorite and think/guess someone has it and hopes to sell
> it (Then it discusses a giant meteorite, the Bendego, that
> fell in Brazil in the 18th century.  I learn something new
> every day.):
>
> http://br.news.yahoo.com/060309/25/12kre.html
>
> Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
> (I can make out the general sense of the Portuguese news
> stories because I can read Spanish very well.)
>
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