Meteorite fall in Latvia, 20 meter crater

A meteorite that was big enough and fast enough to create a 02 meter crater fell in Latvia, one of the smallest country in the world. Here are a few links, I think we will be hearing a lot about this one. For me is not a meteorite

[readrussia.com]

[en.rian.ru]

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[www.mindat.org]


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2009 07:09AM by Matteo Chinellato.

Something just seems suspicious to me after viewing the film of the crater with the smoking, on fire contents. This looks like Hollywood's idea of a meteor strike instead of the real thing.

more likely a stray russian missile?

Jolyon

or a piece of satellite

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Attrezzatura e tecnica sono solo l'inizio. È il fotografo che conta più di tutto. (John Hedgecoe)

A piece of satellite is far more unlikely than a meteorite! Thousands (millions?) more meteories fall to earth each year than man-made space debris.

Jolyon

yes but a meteorite not burn, this is artificial material

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I agree, the video is very suspect..It does not seem to be a real meteorite

I was wondering the same thing. What was actually burning? Not the meteorite.

A german site claims that the meteorite is radioactive. strange film, a crashing meteorite could set fire on something but this looks like a campfire in a gigantic hole - a hoax?

here the confirm its a fake

[www.thaindian.com]

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As a person with Russian heritage... I generally don't trust anything that comes out of Russian news websites