(meteorobs) (OT) Search for meteorite in Southern Siberia
David Entwistle
david.entwistle at dsl.pipex.com
Mon May 7 10:33:38 EDT 2007
From ITAR-TASS news agency
07.05.2007, 14.31
BARNAUL, May 7 (Itar-Tass) - Experts of Kosmopoisk (Space Search)
organization and volunteers have begun search for a meteorite that fell
in the southwest of the Altai region on January 10, 2007. Hundreds of
onlookers within a range of 150 kilometers saw a huge fiery ball rushing
down with a loud sizzling noise.
"The search for the meteorite could not have been started earlier
because of deep snow and heavy frost," Kosmopoisk coordinator Vadim
Chernobrov told Tass...
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11504614&PageNum=0
[comment]
I didn't see anything about the original meteor event, but there were a
number of fireball reports at the time.
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David Entwistle
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