Hi all, A Post Scriptum to my previous mail about the apocryphal story of Djati-Pengilon falling into water:
Forgot to mention that, although this is by no means ascertained, one other meteorite from Indonesia/former Dutch East Indies, indeed might have dropped fragments in sea. It concerns Tjerebon (see Gisolf 1924): The fireball, brighter than the moon, was seen from a very wide area of Java. Four sonic booms were heard. Several fragments probably landed in sea, as the fireball approached from over sea with severe fragmentation obserbed by several eyewitnesses, while the two recovered non-fitting highly angular masses were found just a few km from the coast. The lesser (7.5 kg) fragment impacted at Karangwareng, close to the sugar factory, just a few tens of meters from a mr. Darsen, who heard the sound of the approaching meteorite and the impact crash. The stone had hit a pisang (banana) tree and broken the tree in the middle of its trunk. It made an impact pit one foot deep and onehalf foot wide. The impact pit of the 8 kg main mass was found 2 days later, on the land of a Mr. Toer, 300 meter southeast of the railroad station at Karangsoewoeng and about 0.5 km northeast of the Karangwareng mass. This impact pit was 64 cm deep. best wishes, - Marco reference: W.F. Gisolf (1924): "De meteoriet van Tjerebon". Jaarboek van het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië vol. 53 (Verhandelingen), p. 168-180. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
