[meteorite-list] German Cottage Destroyed By Meteor?

[Matthias Bärmann]

sorry, list, german only (but with photo) :

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,443782,00.html




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From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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> http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-10-20T142152Z_01_L20298092_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-GERMANY-METEOR.XML&WTmodLoc=NewsLanding-C11-Odd-3
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> German cottage destroyed by meteor
> Reuters
> October 20, 2006
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> BERLIN (Reuters) - A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and injured
> a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor and witnesses saw an
> arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said on Friday.
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> Burkhard Rick, a spokesman for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn, said
> the fire gutted the cottage and badly burnt the man's hands and face in
> the incident on October 10.
>
> "We sought assistance from Bochum observatory and they noted that at
> that particular moment the earth was near a field of meteoroid splinter
> and it could be assumed that particles had entered the atmosphere," he 
> said.
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> "The particles usually don't reach the surface because they disintegrate
> in the atmosphere," he added. "But some can make it to the ground. We
> believe this was a bolide (meteoric fireball) with a size of no more
> than 10 mm."
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