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UP village has visitor from the sky Vasishtha Bharadwaj Hindustan Times (India) November 3, 2003 Muzaffarnagar - Residents of Kasauli village near Muzaffarnagar had a surprise on Monday when a meteorite landed on a local field. Subedar Dhyansingh of Kasauli said he first heard a sound similar to that of a passing aeroplane. When he looked up, Dhyansingh saw a "strange object" falling on a nearby field. The villagers found that the object had made a small crater in the field. They reported the matter to the police, who dug the object out and took it to the office of SSP Navneet Sikera. The object turned out to be a meteorite. Its recovery has spurred activity in geological circles. Sikera said teams from the Geological Survey of India, Dehra Dun, Physics Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and IIT, Roorkee are scheduled to arrive here shortly to examine the meteorite. R.P. Singh, vice-chancellor of Chaudhury Charan Singh University, Meerut, has pronounced the 19-kg meteorite as a `rare find.' He said that since meteors disintegrate after entering the earth's atmosphere, it is likely that more such fragments may be found soon. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
