[meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS

[Chris Peterson]

Interesting. This supports my belief that this was a relatively low 
energy impact- a 2 meter object traveling at 1-2 km/s, not ablating. A 
larger parent exploded in the air, contributing to or fully producing 
the measured infrasound and seismic signal. A fragment survived and 
produced the crater. The parent body protected that fragment, just as 
the Sikhote-Alin fragments were protected by being part of a much larger 
body until the last few seconds. I expect the estimate of the explosion 
being 1km from the witness is on the short side; several kilometers is 
more likely, and there's little doubt that most people are totally 
incapable of accurately judging the distance to an event like this.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:35 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] INTERVIEW WITH CARANCAS LOCALS


> Hi, All,
>
>    I've found a Spanish document of an interview with
> an inhabitant of Carancas, in particular their local leader.
> He was interviewed in his native language, Aymara, by
> a native Aymara speaker who has translated the interview
> into Spanish...