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Authorities seek a meteorite which fell in the Northwest of Mexico
posted on: Jan 7 2012 8:42 by RDugey. Viewed 15 times.
The Mexican authorities are seeking a meteorite which fell on Wednesday in a rural area in the northeast of the country, which was sighted in the region but that have few details, official sources reported yesterday.
The alert came when inhabitants of the mountains located between the municipalities of Salvador Alvarado, Mocorito and Sinaloa were surprised to see a bright object which crossed the sky.
The NASA, the national system of Civil protection and the National Center for disaster prevention, Mexico confirmed that this is a meteorite, whose dimensions and exact crash site are unknown.
From the time of the sighting systems of civil protection in search of information on the location of the celestial body are activated, but until today there is nothing concrete.
Some witnesses believe that he could fall between the Gustavo Díaz Ordaz dam and the community San José de Gracia, an area of the neighboring state of Sinaloa u000awith the de Chihuahua.
After hours of searching for heaven and Earth, the head of Civil protection in the municipality of Sinaloa, Marcial Álvarez, declared to Efe believed the Meteor hit in Chihuahua, on the boundaries of the municipality of Sinaloa.
"Apparently, NASA is mistook the name of the community close to the impact, as it was in the town of El Palmar the Leal, but in Sinaloa there is no town by that name." "He investigated and it is the table of the Leal, municipality of Morelos, in the sierra de Chihuahua", added.
This Saturday will take place an overflight of the area by the director of Civil protection in Sinaloa, Ismael Czech Landeros, and staff of the Centre for Science in Sinaloa, who will be traveling to the place where it is believed that it was.
Nowould be the first time that an event of this type is registered in Sinaloa. In 1871 a meteorite fell in the town of Bacubirito, regarded as one of u000athe largest in the world, weighing 22 tonnes.
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