(meteorobs) Dubious fresh impact crater in Latvia

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This is from Earth Changes Media
 
   
Just  about every main-stream news agency fell for this one --- I'm just 
glad ECM  is not among them. It was the student prank that apparently fell to 
Earth after  experts dismissed a meteorite crash in Latvia as an elaborate 
hoax today.  
PHOTO: 
_http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/images/Latvia_meteorite_impact_hoax.jpg_ 
(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102786927332&s=18010&e=001CUQupiSPPBL16fX8n1l_l4ZP_PAaGMDUNal95sE2bhKHCclmvEJ7a_ux4fD8-Jsq_eY5ZFvPcgb3T1rti1pW9l8cUIuzP
hUvxE-kqqeX9_yEMdn9FzqCAzrX5r_ZBNPcrvX11LAOx8xf1-D4koVkKqLN2NFGudEXhBz0yzySB
o01cpXhvLYeCQ==)  
A  fireball at the bottom of an impact crater on farmland outside the town 
of  Mazsalaca was shown all over the world, taken by a group of film 
students who  said that they had heard the meteor strike.  
Dr  Ilgonis Vilks, chairman of the scientific council at the University of  
Latvia's Institute of Astronomy, said: "It's a fake. It's very 
disappointing, I  was full of hope coming here, but I am certain it is not a meteorite." 
 
Setting  aside the astronomical odds of a group of film students happening 
to be at  the ready when a meteorite hits the Earth, Dr Vilks said that 
several other  tell-tale signs had given the game away. 


 
In a message dated 10/26/2009 2:55:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ycsentinel at att.net writes:

The  background scenery tree line and field looks very familiar.....on 
another  meteor impact about a year ago.

Maybe the first one left eggs to  hatch?  :-)

YCSentinel


----- Original Message -----  
From: "Jim Pettit" <jimpettit at gmail.com>
To: "'Global Meteor  Observing Forum'" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2009/10/26  04:58
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Dubious fresh impact crater in  Latvia


> Don't forget to click the backward and forward links at  the bottom 
corners
> of the photo. Pay special attention to the ones  several clicks back...the
> ones that show the hole in the center of the  'crater' glowing
> incandescently...
>
> Of course, the  Daily Mail shows a photo of a different crater, along 
with 
> a
>  notation about a "50-foot meteor":
>  
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1222990/Fiery-meteor-creat
>  es-50-foot-crater-Latvian-countryside.html
>
> But I would like to  see the purported video footage...
>
> -----Original  Message-----
> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
>  [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Fischer
>  Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 7:43 AM
> To:  meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Subject: (meteorobs) Dubious fresh impact  crater in Latvia
>
> Have a look at  http://foto.delfi.lv/picture/959612 - some in Latvia
> believe that this  was caused by an impact yesterday, others think
> it's a hoax (according  to someone who keeps sending me mails w/links).
> What I'm lacking is  any *report* about what allegedly happened,
> preferably in a language I  could read ...
>
> Dan
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