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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:11:24 +0800
Subject: Meteor hits
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Dear Friends,
Here are two news reports regarding the meteorite
shower that took place a couple of days ago.
One meteor landed in Nigeria. Shattering things
seem to happening in Nigeria.......
The beauty contest.....
Regards
JayBee
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Meteorite Lands with a Bang in Nigeria
Agence France - Presse
KANO, Nigeria, ( AFP ) - Residents of the village of Kauyen Toro in
northwest Nigeria thought they were being bombed when a meteorite landed on
a nearby hillside this week, local radio reported Friday.
Worried inhabitants of the village, close to the ancient city of Sokoto,
hurried to the nearby army barracks for protection after the object struck
a hillside just outside the village in the early hours of Wednesday,
garrison commander Brigadier General J.U. Nwuebe told Rima Radio.
An army team was dispatched to the landing site and discovered what it
believed to be a meteorite, shattered into six large fragments on landing,
he said.
"The people thought it was a plane that had dropped a bomb on them. We
believe it was a meteorite and we are sending it for tests," he said.
The radio station, monitored by AFP in the northern city of Kano, said that
the sound of the impact was heard as far away as Tawa, 120 kilometres (90
miles) to the north in neighbouring Niger.
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Meteor rocks village
Villagers have fled from their homes as a falling meteor produced a sonic
boom as it broke the sound barrier.
Residents in Eyemouth, Scotland, thought it was an earthquake.
The shockwave set off burglar and car alarms. Locals called police but
no-one was hurt.
Experts say the meteor caused a sonic boom entering the Earth's atmosphere
at several times the speed of sound.
Bennett Simpson, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey Centre,
in Edinburgh, said such incidents were often mistaken for earthquakes.
He said: "We have had reports of a number of unusual effects felt in the
area. But this was not an earthquake. It is consistent with a meteor
entering the Earth's atmosphere. It can be quite frightening."
John Sinclair, from Ayton near to Eyemouth, said he had been watching
television when his house was rocked by the boom, reports the Daily Record.
"There was a loud thud and then everything began to shake," he said. "I
could hear car alarms going off as well. It was quite frightening. We
didn't know what had happened."
The Earth will begin to cut across the orbit of Comet Temple-Tuttle and
into a blizzard of meteors later this week.
The shower known as the Leonids, is an annual event but this year Earth
will cut across an especially dense part of it. The most spectacular views
will be over the Pacific Ocean.
Story filed: 08:49 Thursday 15th November 2001
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_449682.html
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