'Meteorite' that landed in Latvia is a hoax, claim experts.Byline: ANI London, October 27 (ANI): Experts have said that the claims by a group of students that a meteorite meteorite, meteor that survives the intense heat of atmospheric friction and reaches the earth's surface. Because of the destructive effects of this friction, only the very largest meteors become meteorites. landed in Latvia on October 25, are false, and is an elaborate hoax set up by the students. Dramatic video of a fireball fireball, very bright meteor leaving a trail in the sky that can remain visible for several minutes; often a distinct sound, perhaps caused by very low frequency radio waves, is associated with it. at the bottom of an impact crater “Meteor crater” redirects here. For the crater of that name, see Meteor Crater. In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body. on farmland outside the town of Mazsalaca in Latvia was shown all over the world, taken by a group of film students who said that they had heard the meteor meteor, appearance of a small particle flying through space that interacts with the earth's upper atmosphere. While still outside the atmosphere, the particle is known as a meteoroid. Countless meteoroids of varying sizes are moving about the solar system at any time. strike. But, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in the Times, experts who examined the scene have dismissed the whole thing as a hoax. "It's a fake. It's very disappointing, I was full of hope coming here, but I am certain it is not a meteorite," said Dr Ilgonis Vilks, chairman of the scientific council at the University of Latvia's Institute of Astronomy. Setting aside the astronomical odds of a group of film students happening to be at the ready when a meteorite hits the Earth, Dr Vilks said that several other tell-tale signs had given the game away. There was green grass inside the crater despite the intense heat supposedly generated by the meteorite. The impact crater, initially reported as 10 metres deep, was actually only 3 metres including a lip of soil a metre high around the hole. Dr Vilks said that there was neither ejected material from the hole nor any fragments of meteorite on the surrounding land. Finally, there was the flaming "meteorite" itself. "It's a ball of clay that was burning. We took some samples from it and geologists from the university will examine it," Dr Vilks said. "There was a small blast heard by local people, but this was not strong enough to create the crater and there's only a small area in the hole that is burnt," he added. Dainis Ozols Dainis Ozols (born 11 September 1966) is a professional cyclist from Latvia. In the 1992 Summer Olympics he earned a bronze medal in the 194 km road race, finishing in 4:32:24, 3 seconds behind Erik Dekker of the Netherlands and 4 seconds behind the winner Fabio Casartelli of Italy. , a nature conservationist who also examined the scene, said that he believed somebody had dug the hole and burnt a pyrotechnic compound at the bottom to make it appear like a meteorite crater meteorite crater Depression that results from the impact of a meteorite with a solid object in space. Impact craters have been discovered on Earth, the Moon, Mars, other planets and satellites, and asteroids; they probably occur on unprotected surfaces of similar bodies . The alert was first raised on the evening of October 25 by Ancis Steinbergs, who said that he had been out filming for a university project with his girlfriend and a fellow undergraduate. Video taken by the group showed them approaching the lip of the crater and filming the glowing hot "meteor" at the bottom as they talked excitedly among themselves. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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