[meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite Fell In Their Courtyard inIndia

[Chris Peterson]

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that when "India" and 
"meteorite" appear in the same story, it's going to be rubbish. I wonder 
if there's a single "scientist" in India who knows a thing about 
meteoritics?

Chris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:09 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite Fell In Their 
Courtyard inIndia


>
> http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=81984
>
> Meteorite falls in Jaipur house
> Sahara Samay (India)
> August 8, 2007
>
> Jaipur, Aug 8: A family in Jaipur told the scientists of Geological
> Survey of India (GSI) here that a meteorite fell in the courtyard of
> their home on Monday evening, Sahara Samay sources said.
>
> A female member of the family told that a piece of sparkling stone 
> fell
> in her home on Monday evening. I continued to look at it in awe for
> sometime before I went near it, she added.
>
> However, the scientists of Geological Survey of India have said that 
> the
> piece of sparkling stone does not appear to a meteorite. Even a
> meteorite of small size can cause a big damage, said Dinkar 
> Srivastava,
> a scientist.
>
> He said that the speed of meteorite is several thousand kilometres per
> second and even a small meteorite is usually bigger in size than the 
> one
> found in a home here.
>
> He further added that the GSI could be able to say anything only after
> testing the piece of stone or meteorite.
>
> It is worth noting here a similar sparkling stone was found in a 
> village
> in Sangrur district of Punjab a couple of days ago.