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LARGE CELESTIAL BODY FALLS IN SIBERIA
By Eduard Puzyrev
Russian Information Agency Novosti
October 16, 2002
MOSCOW -- This week a scientific expedition will make
for the site where on September 24 a large celestial
body fell in the taiga forest near the Bodaibo
settlement in the Irkutsk region in East Siberia.
On Wednesday the Astronomy Institute of the Russian
Academy of Sciences reported that, according to
witnesses, "a fiery trail accompanied by drone"
was observed during the fall. People in Bodaibo,
Balakhninski and other places located dozens of
kilometers away from the site felt Earth tremours
like in a quake. After that luminance could be
observed above the site from over 100 kilometers away.
"We have no doubt that a large meteorite fell on
September 24", said a staffer of the Astronomy
Institute.
According to him, the celestial body is unrelated to
unidentified flying objects as proved by the fact that
the other day the United States Department of Defense
published information saying that on September 24 an
American satellite group registered the entry of a
bright body into the Earth atmosphere at an altitude
of 62 kilometers.
The American military say that, approaching the Earth,
the body exploded 30 kilometers above it at 58.21
Northern latitude and 113.46 Eastern longitude.
Specialists say the yield of the explosion was
equivalent to 200 TNT.
"It is clear that a piece of a meteorite unburnt in
the Earth atmosphere has fallen near Bodaibo", said
the Astronomy Institute.
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