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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Meteorite strikes Indian village - injuries and fires rep...
Hi Marco,
Thank you for your comments, and the decay data surrounding the time of this
event. The minor injuries and major casualties, initially reported by the
media, so far appear to be consistant with the updates. Indeed it is possible
that the death and report of blindness, could be attributed to extreme panic
reactions of the witnesses to this remarkable meteoric event.
Thanks also to Andrei and CHRISTINECissy for the additional news reports.
Best Always,
Cinde
In a message dated 9/29/2003 3:33:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
marco.langbroek@wanadoodot nl writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <LOOKIN4ET@aol.com>
>
> > This one sounds like a "Hollywood meteor." Any chance this was a
possible
> > reentry event instead? Nothing on SeeSat-L yet.
> >
>
> Hi Cinde,
>
> The same question popped up on the meteorite central mailinglist yesterday,
> and in response I mailed the following message:
>
> "The NASA OIG server does not list a decay for September 27th. It does list
> a decay for the 28th, with no further details given, of a (probably small)
> object of unknown origin designated as 2003-042J, NORAD # 27947.
> I checked with the last orbit but this object did not pass over India
around
> the time of this big fireball, it was passing over the Bering Strait and
> Kamchatka at that time and then through to Japan and Indonesia and
Australia
> in the next half hour (it did pas over eastern India 2 revolutions later,
> which is about 3 hours later), so it is not a likely candidate. No other
> decay being listed around this date, the conclusion is that it was probably
> not a satellite decay but a meteoric fireball."
>
> Current news messages about what happened in India are a bit confusing and
> perhaps we should allow for some touch of wild imagination in some aspects
> of the story. Some reports state "small injuries", others talk of
> "casualties". That's quite a difference.
> It appears however that at least one stone of about 5 kg has
> been recovered according to the latest news messages:
> http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=32461
> This, If I understand correct, was however not in the village where a
> thatched roof cottage was
> burned down (and someone alledgedly died as a result), so
> perhaps the latter is unrelated or remotely related (e.g. maybe someone
> panicking from the fireball knocked over a fire pot - who knows).
> We should beware because all this info is from widely varying news reports
> so far, which usually are not that reliable as to what really happened. It
> seems to be a possible real meteorite fall though.
>
> - Marco
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