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- From: munk@prl.philips.nl (Harm Munk)
- Subject: Re: Meteorite/Fireball object spotted?
- Message-ID: <munk.714380912@prles6b>
- Sender: news@prl.philips.nl (USENET News System)
- Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands
- References: <92233.46500.LJ10717@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:08:32 GMT
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- LJ10717@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
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-
- >Hello,
-
- >I just recently heard over NPR (National Public Radio) that a possible
- >"meteorite" was spotted over Europe somewhere. I missed the information on
- >exactly where it was spotted. However, the object was accompanied by large
- >tremors covering a 12 mile stretch and a flood of calls to authorities who
- >have already confirmed that the "fireball" object was NOT
- >military test aircraft, abnormal weather patterns, an earthquake OR
- >anything else identifiable, at this point.
-
- >If anyone has specifics to this event please post or email. Thank you.
-
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- >Diamond - lj10717@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com
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-
- On Wednesday evening, at around 22:30 local time (20:30 UT) in the northern
- part of the Netherlands, a loud, explosion-like noise was heard. At the time,
- the air space over this area was closed (it is controlled by a military air
- base), and no other military or civilian air activity was going on. Also, no
- reports of accidents were reported. The European Space Organisation reported
- no space junk entering the atmosphere at that time in that area.
-
- The Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute has six
- seismic measuring stations in and near that part of Holland to measure seismic
- activity in the gas fields in the northern parts of Holland. All six stations
- registered the explosion, and the seismograms indicate that it was a sound
- wave and not a seismic wave. From the order of reception of the sound waves
- it was concluded that something caused a shock wave above or near the town
- Joure in Friesland (a province in the Netherlands). Eye witnesses said that
- they saw a 'pillar of fire in the sky'. Alas, at the time that part of the
- Netherlands was heavily overcast, so whatever these people saw was filtered
- by the clouds.
- At this moment, the best guess is that a meteorite of approximately 30 cm
- diameter entered the atmosphere and exploded at a height of 10 kilometers
- above the town of Joure. Up to this moment, no fragments have been found.
-
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