[meteorite-list] Latvian Meteorite

[Martin Altmann]

Hi Göran,

just a note - the time for a hoax was perfect,
some days ago that video, showing a cool cloud-formation,
was widely broadcasted through the Eastern Europe TV-stations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-XljlBRF6M&hl=de

So the attention was granted.
Best!
Martin


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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Göran
Axelsson
Gesendet: Montag, 26. Oktober 2009 17:14
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Latvian Meteorite

It looks fake to me too. The sides are too shallow to be created by an 
impact. It looks more like something created by a blast in soft clay 
than a shock wave from an impact. If you compare it to other similar 
craters it doesn't look right (Sikhote-Aline, Carancas).
I believe that a hard impactor in a hard target would create a shallower 
crater but in a soft target it would penetrate deeper and make a steeper 
crater. Like a bullet striking a bullet proof glass creates a flat wide 
crater while in water or dirt it travels a long way before it stops.

Then we have the fire that is a dead giveaway.

  :-D

Anyhow, it seems to be a massive hoax unless it was blasted. Either it 
was dug by hand by 50 people in one week or blasted with two tons of 
fertiliser, some diesel oil and a stick of dynamite.

I would guess that this is a pr stunt in the 2012 mass hysteria that is 
sweeping the planet right now and that it was created by explosives.

/Göran

Melanie Matthews wrote:
> Meteorites don't continue burning after they fall as shown in the Youtube
video (unless it fell onto something combustible which doesn't appear to be
the case hear) which tells me this is probably a hoax.. But if this is true
- could 2009 hold the world record for the number of witnessed falls (not
counting showers of course) in one year? 
>
> Regards 
> -----------
> Melanie 
> IMCA: 2975
> eBay: metmel2775
> Known on SkyRock Cafe as SpaceCollector09
>  
> Unclassified meteorites are like a box of chocolates... you never know
what you're gonna get! 
>
>   

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