NASA has denied the death of a person from a meteorite in India – Interfax

Moscow. February 10th. INTERFAX.RU – Representatives from NASA and astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics denied message meteorite killed a bus driver in the state of Tamil Nadu, <-! noindex -> writes <-! /> Noindex -> The New York Times <. /> p>

Earlier it was reported that in India, one person was killed and three others were injured as a result of a meteorite in the territory of the college of engineering on February 6 in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu. On the Internet there were also pictures, which depicted a half meters deep.

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The fact that an unknown celestial body is a meteorite, said on Sunday the government of the state in which the incident occurred. He was found the first documented case of a person killed by a meteorite.

Later, experts have studied samples of rocks and photos from places alleged fall of the celestial body. In a laboratory study, the researchers specimens came to the conclusion that these were fragments of ordinary terrestrial rocks.

According to Lindley Johnson, a member of NASA’s department of planetary defense, the pieces of the meteorite after falling to the ground are cold to the touch, in addition, breed, which took over the celestial body weighed only a few grams.

According to her, there is still no scientifically proven human deaths from meteorites. “There were reports of injuries, but they were extremely rare until the incident with the Chelyabinsk meteorite in 2013, was then recorded a number of destructions and people injured,” – said Johnson

As previously reported, the Chelyabinsk meteorite. We brought in a new edition of the Guinness Book of records as a space object, which suffered the greatest number of people.

meteorite “Chelyabinsk”

Meteorite “Chelyabinsk” entered the Earth’s atmosphere morning, February 15, 2013. He broke up in the atmosphere at an altitude of 30-50 km, numerous fragments of a celestial body have reached the Earth’s surface.

The fall of meteorite observed hundreds of thousands of people in the Urals and northern Kazakhstan. The largest part of the celestial body fell into the lake Chebarkul area, 78 km west of Chelyabinsk. Stored in the Chelyabinsk regional museum fragment weighing over half a ton is considered the largest in the world.