In India, a meteorite killed a man
Three more people suffered
The Perseid stream meteor enters the earth's atmosphere. The photo was taken from the ISS (photo: NASA)
Indian authorities say the meteorite fell on the campus of a private engineering college this Saturday, killing one person. If scientists confirm the information, this will be the first recorded case of a meteorite falling to Earth with a victim of such a fall.
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Information from the scene adds details - the bus driver working on campus was actually killed by a fallen meteorite. The man, not suspecting anything, just walked. As a result of the fall, three more people were injured, plus the windows of the buildings and the buses nearby were damaged.
The incident was already announced by the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jialalita (Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa): “The misfortune happened on Saturday, when a meteorite fell on the campus of a private college in Vellore, Pantharappalli village”. Tamil Nadu is located in southern India, the population of the state is 70 million. Initially, local police decided that a bomb was exploded on campus, but this information was not confirmed. Traces of explosives and no.
Crater formed at the site of the fall of a celestial body (photo: ndtv )
Until now, there were no confirmed victims as a result of meteorites. There are confirmed cases of falling meteorites on a person’s housing, and even on a heavenly body entering a person. But there have been no deaths yet. Unfortunately, now there is.
Found part of a fallen meteorite (Photo: ndtv)
Of the most recent, it is worth highlighting the case of a meteorite falling in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Then many buildings were damaged, and the number of victims (people, injured by fragments of glass, injured due to falls, etc.) reached 1000 people . Fortunately, no one died then.
The Perseid stream meteor enters the earth's atmosphere. The photo was taken from the ISS (photo: NASA)
Indian authorities say the meteorite fell on the campus of a private engineering college this Saturday, killing one person. If scientists confirm the information, this will be the first recorded case of a meteorite falling to Earth with a victim of such a fall.
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Information from the scene adds details - the bus driver working on campus was actually killed by a fallen meteorite. The man, not suspecting anything, just walked. As a result of the fall, three more people were injured, plus the windows of the buildings and the buses nearby were damaged.
The incident was already announced by the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jialalita (Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa): “The misfortune happened on Saturday, when a meteorite fell on the campus of a private college in Vellore, Pantharappalli village”. Tamil Nadu is located in southern India, the population of the state is 70 million. Initially, local police decided that a bomb was exploded on campus, but this information was not confirmed. Traces of explosives and no.
Crater formed at the site of the fall of a celestial body (photo: ndtv )
Until now, there were no confirmed victims as a result of meteorites. There are confirmed cases of falling meteorites on a person’s housing, and even on a heavenly body entering a person. But there have been no deaths yet. Unfortunately, now there is.
Found part of a fallen meteorite (Photo: ndtv)
Of the most recent, it is worth highlighting the case of a meteorite falling in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Then many buildings were damaged, and the number of victims (people, injured by fragments of glass, injured due to falls, etc.) reached 1000 people . Fortunately, no one died then.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/390285/
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