http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=es_en&url="">
Monday, 05 of January of 2004
Updated to the 22:33 (CET) - Internet Time @939 by
WITHOUT SIGN IN LEON And PALENCIA
The CSIC looks for rest of the meteorite in River basin after the finding of small craters
ELMUNDO.ES | AGENCIES
MADRID. - Experts of the General Council of Investigaciones Cienti'ficas (CSIC) have themselves displaced to Minglanilla (River basin) to examine a zone surrounded by the Civil Guard in whom to several craters and vegetation burned in their environs have been located. They will look for the possible rest of the meteorite that exploded on the Iberian Peninsula Sunday.
Meanwhile, the workings search in Leon and Palencia continue being unfruitful, where the Civil Guard creates could have produced an impact due to the earth tremor that felt in an area of 50 kilometers, between both provinces.
Until Minglanilla Jesus Marti'nez-Fri'as, person in charge of the Laboratory of Certification and Meteorite Identification of the Center of Astrobiologi'a will move to members of the team of the geologist (CAB).
After taking place Sunday a fire of three hectares in a zone of grass and he mounts under Minglanilla, the Civil Guard went to the place to investigate the origin of the fire. They found small holes - of about 30 centimeters of diameter -, reason why they contacted with the Subdelegation of the Government in River basin, that alerted to the CSIC as well, before the possibility that the fire bore relation to the outbreak of a meteorite on the Iberian Peninsula.
Skepticism
In spite of the efforts to investigate the causes of these craters, this Monday the CSIC was skeptic on the possibility of finding rest of the cosmic bolide.
In a note, the CSIC clarifies that the sightings of a light in the sky, in different zones from the Peninsula, and the official information of the direct witnesses and institutions indicate that is typical the luminance and acoustic fenomenología of a bolide (it is called thus to any object, and its associated phenomenon, that enters the terrestrial atmosphere).
This organism explains that "as a result of the ablation process, disintegration that takes place by the friction with the terrestrial atmosphere, the probabilities of finding fragments are very little, and it is not possible to be spoken of meteorítica fall until rest do not exist that verify the extraterrestrial nature of the samples".
<http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/graficos/ene/s2/impactos_meteorito.gif> However, the CSIC indicates that the cash of Civil defense, as well as other institutions and scientists, are to the delay of which appears some sample to be able to determine its composition and its origin.
The director of the Astronomical observatory Ramon Maria Aller, of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Jose Docobo Angel, maintains that the bolide would be constituted of the "original virgin matter" of the Solar System.
The explosion and the sighting
This expert describes the vision of the phenomenon from the dependencies of the compostelano observatory like the one of "a luminous object of white color that came lowering from the sky, with an inclination of 30 degrees with respect to the horizon", near the 17,45 hours.
"When it was on the verge of disappearing took place an enormous flash, an enormous light. This was most spectacular of all the event ", indicated Docobo.
In direction This and with a trajectory of North to the South, the phenomenon could be observed in "diverse parts of Spain: Albacete, Valencia, Navarre, Palencia, Leon, etc ". The geographic extension of the sighting "seems to indicate that the explosion took place to a certain height, between the fifty and one hundred kilometers", which can justify "that it saw as much people at the same time it", according to explained the scientist.
Docobo also indicated that the meteorite could have "an important initial mass, between fifty and one hundred tons".
The geologist Jesus Marti'nez-Fri'as, person in charge of the Laboratory of Certification and Meteorite Identification of the CAB, said that the fall of these Earth objects is not exceptional and needed that in many cases they cause "deceptive" a visual effect on his dimensions.
Marti'nez-Fri'as emphasized that the fact that the sightings have followed one another in places very moved away to each other aims at that it is an object "of great dimensions", and it ventured itself to clarify that it could have the size "of a villa".
Marti'nez-Fri'as insisted on the scientific importance to study this object or its rest, and appealed for that reason to the conscience of the citizens so that, if they find some of those rest, they make them available of the official institutions and do not choose to keep them.
>From the Northwest to Southeast
The first sightings of the fire balls were in Galicia, in the four provinces.
In the Community of Madrid, hundreds of neighbors of the North zone called al 112, to the Police and the Civil Guard to inform of which they had seen ' balls of fuegó in the sky by the zone of the Mountain range.
According to it could know elmundo.es, neighbors of Albacete, Valencia, Palencia, Teruel and Baleares also alerted to the services of emergency by the same event between the 18,00 and 19,00 hours.
The firemen had to take part to extinguish a fire in the locality of Cabanes (Castellón). Between the castellonenses municipalities of Nules and Vall d'Uxo small fires due to the fall of the balls were registered.
--
Pekka Savolainen Jokiharjuntie 4 FIN-71330 Rasala FINLAND + 358 400 818 912 Group Home Page: http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/eurocoin Group Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
