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Ursprungligen postat av WSJ
A man was killed and three others were injured Saturday in what authorities said was a meteorite strike at a college campus in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
It would be the first time in modern history that a person has been killed by a meteorite.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2...hief-minister/
It would be the first time in modern history that a person has been killed by a meteorite.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2...hief-minister/
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Ursprungligen postat av TheHindu
According to police sources, a loud blast was heard near a water tank shortly after midnight on the Bharathidasan Engineering College premises in K.Bandarappalli village.
Kamaraj, a college employee, who had gone to drink water suffered serious injuries and was declared dead when taken to the Vaniyambadi Government Hospital. Three others suffered minor injuries. Window panes and wind screens of buses parked nearby and the water tank were broken in the impact of the blast. A crater was formed at the site of blast.
After a similar blast was reported in a paddy field at Alangayam in the same district on January 26, a senior Astrophysicist of the National Physical Laboratory, Ahmedabad, came to the district for a study. “The scientist was camping nearby and rushed to the college soon after hearing the news of the blast. We are convinced that it is a meteorite that fell with high velocity. In the earlier incident, local people remember having seen an object falling from the sky in the field,” the official said.
A special team of the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Asir Vijay Kumar, inspected the scene and ruled out the use of grenades. Vellore Superintendent of Police Senthilkumari also visited the spot. Investigators were trying to check if the college had any CCTV camera covering the disturbed area.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle8204671.ece
Kamaraj, a college employee, who had gone to drink water suffered serious injuries and was declared dead when taken to the Vaniyambadi Government Hospital. Three others suffered minor injuries. Window panes and wind screens of buses parked nearby and the water tank were broken in the impact of the blast. A crater was formed at the site of blast.
After a similar blast was reported in a paddy field at Alangayam in the same district on January 26, a senior Astrophysicist of the National Physical Laboratory, Ahmedabad, came to the district for a study. “The scientist was camping nearby and rushed to the college soon after hearing the news of the blast. We are convinced that it is a meteorite that fell with high velocity. In the earlier incident, local people remember having seen an object falling from the sky in the field,” the official said.
A special team of the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Asir Vijay Kumar, inspected the scene and ruled out the use of grenades. Vellore Superintendent of Police Senthilkumari also visited the spot. Investigators were trying to check if the college had any CCTV camera covering the disturbed area.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle8204671.ece
Borde inte sannolikheten att lokalbefolkningen lyckas drabbas av två meteoritnedslag vara löjligt låg? Om dom kommit samtidigt hade det inte varit konstigt, men med nästan två veckors mellanrum?
Jorden bör väl vara så stor att chansen att det slår ner två meteoriter så pass nära varandra, att lokalbefolkningen kan vittna om båda, borde vara närmast obefintlig?
Skulle det kunna ligga en lite större sten i "fixposition" över Indien, som släpper lite grus med jämna mellanrum eller kan man förklara denna osannolika(iaf i mina ögon) händelse på något annat vettigt sätt?
