[meteorite-list] German Cottage Destroyed By Meteor?

[Michael Farmer]

I would have to guess someone had a little too much of
Octoberfest beer, no meteorite culprit there.
Mike Farmer

--- Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann at web.de> wrote:

> sorry, list, german only (but with photo) :
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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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> Subject: [meteorite-list] German Cottage Destroyed
> By Meteor?
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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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > "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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