Hi,
For those who want a published source: the mentioned Mbale incident (the boy hit) with a picture is mentioned in the MAPS publication on Mbale (Jenniskens et al., Meteoritics vol. 29 (1994), no. 2, p. 246-254). It concerned a 3 grams piece. There has also been a news and views item in Nature with the picture of the boy that same month. The 1648 incident which Mateo mentioned concerns the VOC (Dutch East Indian Company) vessel 'Malacca' on route from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1648, and is described by the Swede Olof Eriksson Willman, who is considered a reliable historic source. Yet the truth remains uncertain. The vessel Malacca however indeed reached Batavia in 1648. For a discussion of this all with translation of the Swedish text of Willman, see the paper by Wickman, GFF 115 (1993), 297-298. For those interested in meteorites hitting objects, the story and pictures of the Dutch Glanerbrug which crashed through a roof can be found on my website on Dutch Meteorites: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/dutchmet.html - Marco (Dutch Meteor Society) ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
