07 of March of 2006 - 15:14

Meteorite fall scares inhabitants in the Bahia

Many had thought that it was about an airplane

Biaggio Talent

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Original story

Salvador - the fall of a meteorite in the night of this monday, 6, in the agricultural zone of the city of Antonio Saint de Jesus, the 180 kilometers of Salvador, scared the inhabitants of the town of Tabocal, where they live about 100 families, situated about a thousand meters of the place of the impact, in a bulk of Atlantic bush of the area. Many had thought that it was about an airplane, hypothesis moved away after an examination in the place from the impact for inhabitants and military policemen.

The agricultora Paulina de Jesus, speaking the senders of radio and television of the region, counted to have seen the immense fire ball crossing the sky, next where it deferred payment. "When it fell, vi the fire torch that went up about 30 meters", said.

In second, the company of the Military Policy of Antonio Saint de Jesus ordered a radio-patrol until the area, but as the region is of closed bush, the policemen had not carried through a nocturnal incursion. In the morning of this tuesday, 7, lieutenant Davi Borges was in the together place with some soldiers and a guide, evidencing the inexistence of destroços of aircraft, showing if to really deal with a meteorite. A great area of forest was burnt, trees broken to the way and five holes made in the ground.

Astronomers of the Astroroof of Antares, installed in the city of Fair of Santana, next the Antonio Saint de Jesus, intend to examine in the Wednesday, 8, the area reached for the meteorite, but they had informed not to have more danger for the inhabitants how much the contamination for radioactivity, that could happen if the remaining portions were of some satellite.