From: "Keith Wyatt" <kewyatt@teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 23:11:20 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:55:39 -0500
Subject: Re: Skywatch: Filer's Files #51


>From: "Skywatch International" <SKYWATCH> To: "(list #1)"
><skywatch_ok@msn.com>
>Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 07:32:54 +0000
>Subject: Filer's Files #51


> GREENLAND

> Last week we reported that a giant meteor  lit up a large area of
> the Atlantic Ocean around Greenland on December 9, 1997, at 5:15
> a.m. Fishermen aboard the motor vessels Halton Trawl  and Regina C.
> cruising off the eastern coast of Greenland heard a faint rumbling
> sound.  Looking  west, they spied "a giant flash split the
> darkness." The bright flash was also seen by fishermen aboard the
> Timmarut, a Danish motor trawler  moored in Greenland's Julianehaab
> Bay.  "The glow lit up the whole ice cap," Jens P.,  one of the
> fishermen, said. A parking lot surveillance camera in Nuuk,  the
> Danish territory's capital on Greenland's west  coast, "also
> recorded a brief illumination at that  time."  Scientific analysis
> of the data indicates, " the flash was so huge that we have good
> reason to believe that  this was a giant meteor," said Bjoern Franck
>  Jorgenson of the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in  Copenhagen, Denmark.
>  "Jorgenson said it was probably a 'one-piece,  solid meteor'
> that exploded.  Most meteors travel  at more than 7,400 miles per
> hour and explode or  break up as they enter the atmosphere," the
> Reuters report noted. Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute at the
> University of Copenhagen and the Tycho Brahe  Planetarium estimated
> that the meteor struck the Greenland ice cap at a point 50
> kilometers   (30 miles) northeast of Narsarsuaq airport. The meteor
> "can be compared to the Kap York meteorite," which fell in "Melville
> Bay, Sassivik,  south of Thule." "The flashes observed with the
> meteorite were  so bright as to turn night into day at a distance of
>  100 kilometers and can be compared to the  light of a nuclear
> explosion in the atmosphere.  However, we stress that there is no
> reason to  believe (the flashes) were other than natural causes."
> The institute reported a strange discrepancy in the incident,
> however.  The "meteor" crashed no later than 5:15 a.m.  Greenland
> time or 8:15 a.m. UTC time.  Yet, six  minutes later, at 8:21 a.m.
> UTC, a "seismic  disturbance," attributed to the meteor, was
> recorded  at Svalbard, Norway.  Two minutes later, at 8:23 a.m. UTC,
> a second "shock wave" was recorded by the  seismic detectors at
> Finmarca, Norway.  The readings were announced by the Norwegian
> Seismic  Agency at Kjeller.  Similar readings were taken in  Finland
> and Germany.  Yet, according to the Institute, there were no
> readings of a "shock wave" or "seismic disturbance"  at Danmarkshavn
> and Sonder Stromfjord, Greenland  only 380 miles (608 kilometers)
> west of the meteor  strike zone.  Although grounded by a severe
> blizzard on Monday, December 11, planes of the Danish Air  Force
> continued their search for the meteor crater.  It has not yet been
> found.  (Many thanks to the Geophysical Dept. at the Niels Bohr
> Institute and  the Tycho Brahe Planetarium for the news release.)

I believe NORAD will have the Data for the impact point
of this meteor. If they can track a scud missle launch in Iraq
they can certainly pinpoint the impact zone.
Could someone in the scientific community please follow this up.

Keith Wyatt


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