(meteorobs) (OT) Search for meteorite in Southern Siberia

[Jim Pettit]

I really like this line: "A local resident saw [a meteorite] by chance near
a fence outside his house...[at] first, the man used the find from space to
drive nails."

Clearly some remedial training in meteorite recovery and care may be
required. :)

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[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of David Entwistle
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Subject: (meteorobs) (OT) Search for meteorite in Southern Siberia

 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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