[meteorite-list] meteorites hitting people

From: marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:50:26 2004
Message-ID: <1018511911.3cb54227478fd_at_www2.wanadoo.nl>

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)
Received on Thu 11 Apr 2002 03:58:31 AM PDT