Mexican Authorities searching for fallen 'Meteorite'

Mexican Authorities searching for

hisz.rsoe.hu

Mexican authorities are searching for a meteorite that fell to earth in a rural area in the northwestern part of the country, which was sighted in the region but about which there are as yet few details, officials said Friday. The alarm sounded when inhabitants of a mountainous region of Sinaloa state near the border with Chihuahua were startled by the approach of a luminous object in the night sky. NASA and Mexican emergency services agencies confirmed that the object was a meteorite

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I don't think this has been posted as yet but will definitely be of some interest here.
Mexico seems to get all this action lately. Didn't they get hit by Russian space junk in 2010? There are also thread about UFO's, stargates above mexico, scientists packing up and leaiving the mexican coast and now this.

Nothing to see here though according to NASA,

Also love the RSOE description for this type of event.

'Event into space'

hisz.rsoe.hu
(visit the link for the full news article)

Not really true that mexico gets all that action. We just had one that spread debris estimated at 1kg and less around Jämsä.

is it normal for the authorities to search for a meteorite
is there a group of mexican meteorite hunters or something

Originally posted by three1zero
is it normal for the authorities to search for a meteorite
is there a group of mexican meteorite hunters or something

Well its probably a lot safer than searching for the drug cartels so they have all joined in.

Maybe this one is a weather balloon like they tried to say about Roswell lol NOT!

Let's just hope the drug cartels get a hold of this....then we can have a reason to drop the pred's on them

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they are sure good at killing canadians lately too!
we have a travel warning for mexico!

I just found this picture on another site which is claimed to be the meteorite. Never seen one like that before??

Originally posted by three1zero
is it normal for the authorities to search for a meteorite

No, that's not normal. Government never spends money and resources looking for a meteorite. Especially Mexico.


They likely think it's a satellite from some country. Could have technology of interest or a plutonium 238 power pack.

Interesting, would be great if it was followed the whole way through.

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Maybe because they can get a crap load of money now for the fallen meteorites....

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if i can read right in the article they say :

officials said Friday. The alarm sounded when inhabitants of a mountainous region of Sinaloa state near the border with Chihuahua were startled by the approach of a luminous object in the night sky.

With that it's hard to think this picture is relate.

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I wonder if this has anything to do with this!

Seems mighty suspicious to me!

This story was headlining yesterday and caught my attention...and now this...something seems amiss!


Star and Flag...let's get this thread some attention!

Hmm, I wonder if this has something to do with it? The date is right.

HAMPTON, Va. -- The final water landing test of the Orion crew capsule has been re-scheduled for Friday, Jan. 6, at NASA's Langley Research Center's Hydro Impact Basin in Hampton, Va. The test was originally scheduled to take place Thursday, Jan. 5, but a combination of wind and cold weather conditions prohibited pre-test operations atop the gantry.

Originally posted by jerryznv
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I wonder if this has anything to do with this!

Seems mighty suspicious to me!

This story was headlining yesterday and caught my attention...and now this...something seems amiss!

edit on 7-1-2012 by jerryznv because: ...

I thought the same thing jerryznv

if the meteorite fell on my land id keep it and put it on eBay finders keepers surley the government cant take something off you that never belonged to them

Well they are not looking for it because it has any value...that is certain...other than mineral identification...monetarily though...it is almost worthless!

Meteorite prices vary from one source to another but the numbers quoted here are typical of retail values in today’s marketplace. Unclassified stone chondrites picked up by nomads wandering in the Sahara Deserts are readily available for about $0.50/gram. Attractive stones from the Gao-Guenie witnessed fall (Burkina Faso, Africa, March 5, 1960) can be purchased for about $1.50/gram and a top quality one-kilogram specimen of the Campo del Cielo iron meteorite from Chaco Province, Argentina can be yours for about $400.

geology.com...

This is the latest info and photo - Elements of Civil Protection and rescue search in three municipalities of the state, a meteorite that fell Wednesday afternoon on land Sinaloa , which broke up shortly before touch the ground, sources said officials .

Landeros Czech Ismael, director of Civil Protection of Sinaloa, reported that links with the U.S. Space Agency (NASA, for its acronym in English) confirmed that at 18:50 hours yesterday found that a celestial body entered the atmosphere. And requests that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its acronym in English) indicated that the celestial body might fall on the part of the sierra of Sinaloa de Leyva. Last night, residents of the municipalities of Salvador Alvarado and Mocorito who noticed a great light coming down from heaven and was divided into three parts, and disappear at landfall, they called the police and radio news of placing the fact in their areas.

Originally posted by chrismarco
Maybe because they can get a crap load of money now for the fallen meteorites....

PSSSTT Hey senior... wanna buy some meteorite? I haz lots