[meteorite-list] Re: Possible meteorite fall in Northeast Brazil (forwarded message from Wilton Caravalho)

[M come Meteorite Meteorites]

How it is wanted demonstrator, Wilton its another
expert of brasilian meteorites...now we waith the
answer of mr.Lautaro seen its in this list.

Matteo

--- Mark Van Tomme <markvantomme at yahoo.com> ha
scritto: 

> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Would you please post this message for me.
> 
> It seems I am facing a problem with messages I send
> which are not being 
> posted.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Wilton
> Message to be posted:
> 
> 
> Subject: Do meteorites start fires?
> 
> By 7:00 PM, last Monday,  a fireball was seen
> "exploding" over a rural 
> area 
> in Brazil. Next day the Press just aired and wrote
> that a meteorite 
> felt and 
> set at least five fires in a large area close by a
> highway.
> 
> Until now no fragments of meteorite or space junk
> has
> been found.
> 
> Yesterday, Wednesday, I have been at the site and
> found only ash, 
> burned 
> trees and bushes. Local people are searching the
> area.
> One of them 
> found a 
> "stone with a black coating" which was promptly
> photographed and 
> published 
> by newspapers as a meteorite. I examined a fragment
> of
> that stone and 
> found 
> that it is just sandstone. No doubt about that: two
> geologists also 
> have the 
> same opinion after examined the sample I got from
> the
> finder. There is 
> no 
> crater at all. Just a hole 29 cm long and 40 cm deep
> where nothing was 
> found.
> 
> I believe that  meteorites do not start a fire as
> Nininger wrote in the 
> book 
> Ask a question about meteorites (1961, 1969 pages 8
> and 9)
> 
> "Meteorites do not start fires even when they fall
> into some easily 
> combustible material such as dry grass or straw.
> Meteorites do not 
> reach the 
> ground in blazing condition.* (The one exception to
> this rule is the 
> extremely rare crater-forming meteorite which is so
> huge that it 
> resists the 
> braking effect of atmospheric friction and explodes
> upon reaching the 
> earth."
> 
> I will visit the site again next Sunday looking for
> evidences that the 
> fires 
> people saw just after the fireball almost silent
> "explosion" were not 
> started by a meteorite fall.
> 
> Is there any occurence of meteorites which started
> fires?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Van Tomme" <markvantomme at yahoo.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:48 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible meteorite fall in
> Northeast Brazil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,below is the link to a brazilian site
> reporting
> on a possible meteorite fall yesterday in the town
> of
> Santo Antônio de Jesus,State of Bahia,Northeast
> Brazil.
> It's in Portuguese sorry but it basically says that
> a
> "fireball" has created a crater and caused panic
> among
> the population and that the local astronomical club
> was looking for samples.
> 
>
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI908174-EI306,00.html
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark Van Tomme
> 
> 
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