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« on: February 09, 2016, 11:57:11 am »


from The Telegraph....

Indian bus driver ‘killed by meteorite strike’

Tamil Nadu chief minister says man named as Kamaraj killed by meteorite.

By ANDREW MARSZAL in New Delhi | 8:08PM GMT - Monday, 08 February 2016

Indian authorities inspect the site of the suspected meteorite impact. — Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.
Indian authorities inspect the site of the suspected meteorite impact.
 — Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.


AS A bus driver in India, avoiding fast oncoming danger was his trade.

But there was nothing V. Kamaraj could do when, as he washed his face at the outdoor water tank on his daily lunch break, he become the first person in modern recorded history to be struck dead by a meteorite.

That is the only explanation authorities have for the bizarre demise of the 40-year-old, who was last seen relaxing in the grounds of a small engineering college in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu at noon on Saturday, when an explosion was heard.

Once the dust and heavy smoke had cleared, Mr Kamaraj was spotted lying unconscious next to a mysterious, two-foot wide crater, with serious facial injuries.

Several window panes were also broken.

“It was a sound like nothing I've ever heard before,” said G Baskar, the principal of Bharathidasan Engineering College, who was working close by at the time.

“There was no smell at all, no fire, nothing.”

Alternative explanations such as leftover explosives from construction, or a terror attack, were swiftly ruled out by police after no chemical traces were found by forensics teams, leaving authorities with no option but to declare the most unusual of deaths.

“An accident occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a private engineering college,” said Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the Tamil Nadu's chief minister, in a statement on Sunday.

“Kamaraj was severely injured and taken to hospital. On the way there he succumbed to his injuries. I offer my sincere condolences to Kamaraj's family.”


The meteorite impact killed a bus driver and injured three others on February 6th. — Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.
The meteorite impact killed a bus driver and injured three others on February 6th.
 — Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.


In a country of India's size, meteorites strikes, though still rare, are recorded from time to time.

“At least one or two meteorites fall every year in India, but so far we've not had any damage to property or people,” said Professor SVS Murty of India's Physical Research Laboratory, which analyses rock samples from suspected “falls”.

“This is the first time in the recorded history of meteorites falling that somebody died because of a meteorite falling and its consequences, in India or anywhere else. Meteorites have not killed a single person so far.”

The unprecedented death has raised doubts among some scientists, who have advised caution until lab testing is carried out on rock fragments.

The Institution of Astrophysics in nearby Bangalore yesterday [Monday] sent a team of scientists to inspect the site following a police request. Rock fragments will need to be tested for extraterrestrial matter, while the possibility of manmade space debris has yet to be ruled out.

“It looks like a meteorite, but we need to be sure,” said Niruj Mohan, an astrophysicist. “The larger the meteorite the fewer there are of them floating around. To find one reaching Earth is not common, and to find one this size is even less common.”

The victim's family will receive 100,000 rupees (£1,000) from the state's public relief fund, with smaller amounts paid out to three others who were injured in the incident.


Meteorites: key stats and unusual claims

It is estimated that around 500 meteorites hit the Earth's surface every year, though most go unnoticed.

The odds of being killed by a meteorite in your lifetime are 700,000 to 1, although that figure includes the risk of being on Earth when a massive asteroid hits and wipes out the entire planet.

Many more are burnt up in the atmosphere. Between 100-300 metric tons of extraterrestrial material reaches Earth every day, although the fast majority is fine cosmic dust.

Thousands of squares miles of forest in remote Siberia were flattened in 1908 following the explosion in the Earth's atmosphere of the largest meteor in recorded history. Nobody was injured as the blast affected an uninhabited area.

NASA says there is “no reason to doubt” an Egyptian farmer's eyewitness account of a meteorite pulverising a dog near Alexandria in 1911. Fragments of Martian rock were found at the scene.

A meteorite that decapitated an unwitting cow in Venezuela in 1972 was recently auctioned for £1,080 by Bonhams, after the farmer who found it had used it as a doorstop for several years. He also ate the cow.


A Nicaraguan soldier checks the site where an alleged meteorite struck on September 7th, 2014 in Managua. — Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.
A Nicaraguan soldier checks the site where an alleged meteorite struck on September 7th, 2014
in Managua. — Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.


A meteor left a large hole in an ice-covered lake near Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.
A meteor left a large hole in an ice-covered lake near Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.

In 2013, a meteoroid plummeted into Earth's lower atmosphere near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. It shattered with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs, injuring 1,100 people through flying glass and debris. A 20-ft wide hole was later found in the ice of a nearby frozen lake.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/12146928/Indian-bus-driver-killed-by-meteorite-strike.html
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2016, 04:46:58 pm »

They appear on the sand like any old piece of sea detritus. Sometimes they're found, amid the candy wrappers and cracked shells, by volunteers cleaning up the area. Other times a vacationer might glimpse the grisly discard from the corner of their eye, a serene walk along the beach interrupted just like that.

As more people learned about these discoveries, they attracted morbid scavengers to the Pacific Northwest shorelines, where the Salish Sea connects waterways along the West Coasts of the US and Canada.

What these scavengers sought remains a prickling curiosity: severed feet attached to running shoes, washed up from origins unknown.

Sixteen of these detached human feet have been found since 2007 in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state. Most of these have been right feet. All of them have worn running shoes or hiking boots. Among them: three New Balances, two Nikes and an Ozark Trail.

FROM THE ARCHIVES:
* Seventh severed foot identified
* Severed feet a mystery for Canadian authorities

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/76814261/Severed-feet-still-inside-shoes-keep-mysteriously-washing-up-on-US-and-Canada-coasts

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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/world/vancouver-island-human-foot/






https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/11/severed-feet-still-inside-shoes-keep-mysteriously-washing-up-on-pacific-northwest-shores/


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