Whileclaimshave been running rife that a man was vote down and three others hurt by a meteorite strike in India , NASA has weighed in on the debate . After analyzing the photos published online , the space agency hasapparently reportedthat the volcanic crater is actually more logical with a “ land based explosion , ” despite earlyreportsfrom the scene of the shock indicating not “ a exclusive ingredient pertaining to any kind of explosive was find at the land site . ”
It was on Saturday that the eventreportedly make place , as the suppose “ meteorite ” hang from the sky and bring down on Bharathidasan Engineering College ’s campus , near the city of Vellore in the southern Tamil Nadu state . The explosion from the unmistakable strike shattered windows of nearby buildings and bus , as well as splinter a water tank car that the dupe , a bus machine driver identified only as Kamaraj , was apparently direct towards . However , there were no eyewitnesses of the accurate moment .
That was n’t a meteorite that kill a human in India , NASA sayshttps://t.co/OY8V9lBM29pic.twitter.com/rELP2XQ4Kj
— The New York Times ( @nytimes)February 10 , 2016
“ While more details are forthcoming from local scientists , this is unlikely something from space , ” NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown say in astatement . “ To form a volcanic crater the size of what has been posted online would have required a meteorite of at least several kilograms . ” So far , there have beenconflicting reportsabout what precisely has been recuperate from the site . Some say that the police have find a small black gem , while others indicate that a jagged object dark blue in color has been retrieved .
Another criticismhas been that there were no known meteor showers occurring over that region during the weekend , and so it would have been hard for the strike to fall away through the observation of scientists and their monitoring equipment . But that is also true of a meteorite that took people by surprisal when it struck Denmark over the weekend , and even more so of the Chelyabinsk meteorite back in 2013 . Despite weighing hundred of kilo , the Chelyabinsk infinite rock-and-roll was still overleap by scientist until it blotch across the sky in Russia , explode above the city and injuring more than1,000 masses .
Either direction , it look like more investigation is required to get to the bottom of the causal agency of the detonation . Scientists have reportedly been studying the encroachment crater , and have dug it up searching for any debris or fragments of rock’n’roll that might be linked to the case . At the same meter , scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics are take apart the samples of rock collected by the police .
