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Re: (meteorobs) Re:Meteorite Strikes Village in India



Dear All,
 
Some updates on the Indian event:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_395366,000900030010.htm
 
Best wishes,
Andrei Ol'khovatov
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Subject: (meteorobs) Re:Meteorite Strikes Village in India


The Hindu
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Sep 29, 2003


- Orissa    


Search for meteorite remnants continues

Bhubaneswar Sept. 28.
The search for the remnants of the huge meteorite — which sped across the sky in the coastal Orissa last night — continued today amid reports of villagers in Kendrapara district stumbling upon two strange objects this morning. While the object at Benakanda village was blown to smithereens, the one at Paschima suniti — weighing 5.7 kg — was intact. The ball of fire, described by scientists as a meteorite, streaked across the sky from west to east before landing on a thatched house at about 6.30 p.m. yesterday and was witnessed by the people in at least 11 districts in the coastal belt. One dies One of the 11 persons admitted to hospitals in Kendrapara, Jajpur and Mayurbhanj districts after witnessing the spectacle died in the SCB Medical College Hospital at Cuttack today. Sukadeb Singh (75), who along with two others, had been shifted from Kendrapara hospital to Cuttack, died this morning. Five persons, including three from one family, were admitted to hospitals in three different places of Jajpur district while three others were hospitalised at Kaptipada in Mayurbhanj district. The three persons, who fell unconscious after the incident, were recovering in the Kaptipada Hospital. A 75-year-old man, Harekrushna Behera, complained that he had lost his vision after seeing the fire. In Kolkata, M.P. Brila Planetarium clarified that the small streak of luminous yellow light which turned to orange and finally brilliant blue before disappearing from the sky was a typical meteorite, though it came a wee bit closer to the earth than the normal ones. It was a normal cosmic phenomenon and had nothing to do with the tidal ebb. — PTI







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