(meteorobs) Some preliminary thoughts on the Peruvian event

[mark_vornhusen]

Dear David,
hmm, this microscopic piece is all they found? In this case a rain of
thousands of meteorite fragments can be ruled out. A meteor rain was
indicated by one eyewitness report. She told that stones rained down
on her house for several minutes. A week after the event there would
be some photos of the meteorites online or found on Ebay, in the case
that thousands of meteorite fragments came down the sky.
The house with the hole in the roof, which can be seen in some videos
of the site, is only 100m away from the crater, reported a germany guy
who was at the crater site yesterday. I think it is likely that the
damage was caused by stones that came out of the crater and this is
may be also likely for the stones that rained down on the eyewitness
house for several minutes. If they rained down for several minutes and
were ejected from the crater it can't be a meteor impact, because the
stones would not stay in the air for minutes after an impact of this size.

Now the whole story reminds me of the New York steam blast:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/nyregion/19explode.html

But maybe it is to early to make even preliminary thoughts on the
Peruvian event :-)

Mark




 

--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, David Entwistle
<david.entwistle at ...> wrote:
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> In message <fd08ap+v7o4 at ...>, mark_vornhusen <mark at ...> 
> writes
> >Dear Andrei,
> >also there is an eyewitness report that stones rained down from the
> >sky for several minutes after the main impact. Before the impact there
> >was a strong sound, like an airplane, reported another eyewitness.
> >Nearly all reports indicate a meteorite origin of the crater. In my
> >opinion there is little room for doubts that it was indeed a meteorite
> >impact. The eyewitness reports don't fit to a volcanic eruption or a
> >man made explosion.
> >
> 
> I believe, but would welcome confirmation from someone fluent in the 
> language, that there are preliminary results of the sample analysis on 
> the UMSA Planetario Max Schreier web site.
> 
> http://fcpn.umsa.bo/fcpn/app?service=page/Planetarium
> 
> Well done UMSA.
> -- 
> David Entwistle
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