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Mar. 22nd, 2014
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Взято отсюда.
Канадские исследователи и НАСА полагают, что один или несколько фрагментов редкого и ценного метеорита, возможно, упали на землю возле Сент-Томас, Онтарио, пишет http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/meteorite-from-ontario-fireball-described-as-rosetta-stone-1.2581751. Это произошло во вторник вечером, после того, как огненный шар пронесся по небу в южном Онтарио.
Цитата из источника по ссылке выше:
Unusual orbit
Not only was there good data on the space rock’s orbit, but that orbit itself was special. It turns out the rock has spent most of its recent past circling closer to the sun than the Earth, having left its original orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter long ago.
tp-meteorite-ontario-westerThe last time there was a meteorite fall in southern Ontario was in 2009, when the meteorite that produced this fireball crashed through the windshield of an SUV in Grimsby, Ont.
Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s meteoroid environment office, said only one other meteorite known to have come from that kind of orbit has ever been recorded.
«This is not your run-of-the-mill meteor fall,» he said at the news conference. «This is a very unusual orbit. We’re really interested in knowing what type of object was in this … We won’t know that until we find a piece of it.»
Brown said the meteorite is a piece of the early solar system.
«This is like a poor man’s space probe. It comes to us,» he said. «It’s going to tell us … what made the Earth, what made the other planets.»
Некоторое время назад на сайте было сделано предупреждение. Можно считать событие в Канаде подтверждением того, что было высказано ранее.
Скорее всего больше предупреждений не будет.