[meteorite-list] Re: Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

[ken newton]

Deboarh and List,
Speaking of similar stories: A genuine fireball was report on Nov 22, 
1996. On December 15, 1996, Associated Press issued a report entitled 
"Meteorite blasts 165-foot-wide crater in Honduras". An expedition in 
Feb. 1997 (http://www.astro.cz/~borovic/honduras.htm) found landslides 
but no crater and no verifiable meteorite. And then in 2002 - 
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwnews/01242002.htm.
More stories: http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/news1.html
Best,
Ken Newton
IMCA #9632




Deborah Martin wrote:

> I will let the experts here debate this but, from the very beginning, 
> I thought this story sounded familiar.  In December 1997, the Internet 
> was rife with rumours of a huge meteorite crashing in Greenland.  As 
> the days and the weeks went on, the size of the meteorite was 
> considerably downsized and then it was confirmed there was a bright 
> flash but no impact.  See the url below.
>
> I'm just wondering if we are not dealing with something like this this 
> time around as well.
>
> Just my very humble .02 CAN
>
> Andre
>
> http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text/9712.greenland/9712.greenland.html
>
>