Meteorite Hits Mexico Leaving 30 Meter Crater in Ahuazotepec Municipality
A meteorite has smashed into the ground in Mexico, leaving a 30 meter (100 feet) wide crater, reports said.
The meteorite impact was in the Ahuazotepec Municipality in Central Mexico between the cities of Puebla and Hidalgo.
The precise impact area of the meteorite was in a relatively unpopulated area and hit around 6.30pm local time, Mexican media said.
The Ahuazotepec, Mexico meteorite impact was so massive it broke windows in homes many kilometers from the epicenter and people reported buildings swaying and mass confusion. Other reports said the Mexico meteorite impact partially damaged a road and a bridge.
The Mexican military was called in to lock down the area where the apparent space rock slammed into the ground.
Initial fears where that the impact was a aircraft crashing to the ground, but that report was later dismissed.
The Central Mexico meteorite event was
witnessed by countless people in the region of the impact, with people
as far away as Mexico City saying they saw the burning object enter the
atmosphere.
Update: The Mexican government now believes the space junk was not a meteorite, but perhaps a Russian satellite.
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Russian Satellite Hits Mexico
A fireball that smashed into Central Mexico this week, first thought
to have been a meteorite, was actually a falling Russian space
satellite.
People across Mexico reported seeing a large fireball in the late
afternoon sky over Mexico and hearing a massive boom or explosion.
A Mexican official says the government now believes the falling
space object as a Russian satellite falling from orbit and into the
earths atmosphere: "We think it was the space wreckage of a Russian
satellite that was catalogued by the Department of Defense of the
United States and which we knew could pass over Mexican territory,"
engineer Fernando de la Peno said.
The most likely scenario for the falling space junk over Mexico was
from the Cosmos 2421 reconnaissance satellite launched by the Russian
Navy in June 2006.
Back in 2006, Cosmos 2421 made news that it could eventually crash
and burn into the Earth and posed a danger to humans. Cosmos 2421 had
since broken apart into 15 pieces, with a large chunk of Cosmos 2421
likely the cause of the Mexico fireball.
So far authorities have failed to reach any crash site for the
apparent Russian satellite crash. However, the possibility for a
meteorite was still possible.
Earlier reports in Mexican media said that a large meteorite had crashed between the Ahuazotepec Municipality in Central Mexico between the cities of Puebla and Hidalgo. Some reports via radio also
said a crash site had been found, and a bridge collapsed, as well as
damage to some houses. This report later proven to be a false report.
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