New (brief) story with the headline, "They affirm that NASA knew that the object was going to fall on Argentina" -- http://www.corrientesnoticias.com.ar/article.php?sid=8211 Two other new (?) stories dated January 22: "Conmoción en Corrientes por la caída de chatarra espacial" (Commotion in Corrientes due to the fall of space junk) -- http://www.corrientesnoticias.com.ar/article.php?sid=8209 "Incidente espacial: serían los restos de un satélite italiano" (Space Incident: They may be the remains of an Italian satellite [must be a story from the first day]) -- http://www.corrientesnoticias.com.ar/article.php?sid=8208 The stories I've been reading just now seem to me to agree that it fell around 10:00 AM local time. It was several hours before some firefighters got there, and even later when police arrived. One story said that in one of the nearby places even the police station didn't have a telephone. This is a remote rural area. The most puzzling thing is the reports of a yellowish liquid draining out of it. I think there was some rain during the day before officials arrived, so maybe that can somehow explain the liquid. Thanks very much to Luis Reggiardo for setting up the web page! I was able to watch and listen to parts of two pretty good interview videos, but both of them stopped before they had played completely: http://www.tn.com.ar/popupclarin.asp?Id_Nota=37885 http://www.tn.com.ar/popupclarin.asp?Id_Nota=37872 One sidebar of one article mentions that in April 2003 a metal sphere 75 cm in diameter fell in a sugar cane field in the south of Guatemala. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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