Experts studying the "meteorite" that killed a person in India Bashny.Net

As already reported on Geektimes, India recorded the first case of human death because of a fallen meteorite. The driver of the bus, peacefully strolling through the territory of student campus, injured, incompatible with life after the fall of a certain object, which later was named witnesses meteorite.

Now a team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics studies the crater left by the fall this object and debris fallen celestial body. According to the scientists, is that there is no 100% proof that it was a meteorite. The object can also be a fragment of space debris, partially burned in the atmosphere in the fall.

"Our team is now select samples from the scene. The study of the origin of the celestial body will take a couple of days. Now we can not clearly say, a meteorite or not », - says official the representative of the institute.

On the first meteorite said the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dzhayalalita (Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa). "The misfortune happened on Saturday when a meteorite fell on the campus of the private college in Vellore district, village Pantharapalli (Pantharappalli)», - he said after examining the scene.

Eyewitnesses say the strange sound of Saturday afternoon, followed by a blow. At the crash site of an object damaged standing near the buses, smashed windows, there are victims - 3 people, and one who died, as mentioned above.

Police said that the deceased driver of the bus body fragments of rock extracted. Part of a fallen object found at the scene, has magnetic properties, it most likely metal. As mentioned above, the object may not be meteorite, and a fragment of a spacecraft partially burned in the atmosphere of the Earth in the fall. But just about this, we know only a day or two. Do you think it is a meteorite or a piece of space debris?

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