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Meteorite Fragments M In order to picture the subsequent course of events, you need to have a precise idea of the relationships between the height of the first explosion (10,000 metres above the ground), the size of the areas of uprooted trees (many times larger than height) and the distance (hundreds of kilometres) that the pieces of the fragmented meteorite flew. (The interval between the explosions is the time taken for the remnants to fly from one blast area to another.) Above the Shishkov blast area, the meteorite had broken into several parts. The fragments scattered in different directions, but Id terminator spheres bearing down from different sides caught and 5 P! g ig destroyed them. This is the reason why, on the one hand, in the — areas of uprooted trees researchers have found several epicentres marked by trunks felled in different directions, while, on the other hand, all the witnesses spoke of hearing first a terribly powerful explosion (the fragmentation) and then, over the course of five to six minutes, something like an artillery cannonade (the "mopping- up" of the small pieces). After the terminator hit the meteorite above the Shishkov site, arge pieces of the surviving meteorite substance continued by inertia to move along the original trajectory to the area of the The direction of the fallen tree trunks at the epicentre Kulik blast site. Having lost speed and energy, the fragments of the explosion. covered the distance of 120 to 150 kilometres in about 15 minutes (the speed of a jet aircraft), after which there was a second power- equally strong, then a third. In the interval between the first and ful explosion. The terminators that flew into this area struck the second there was an unusual subterranean rumbling, like the fragments coming from the Shishkov site. sound rails might make if 10 trains were running on them at once. Yegor Ankudinoy, an inhabitant of the village of Berezovo in Nizhne- Ilimsk district, Irkutsk region, was with his father and uncle at the time, felling pines in the forest to make a The gigantic plasma spheres house. He recalled: It was a beautiful day. We had just crashed into the meteorite had breakfast and begun cutting | fragments, releasing a colossal wood. Suddenly there was a bang from somewhere close by. The amount of energy In order to ground started shaking and dry ici ranches fell offdhe trees Then destroy the cosmic intruder... little later, there was another thun - derclap: the same, only far, far releasing a colossal amount of energy away, somewhere off to the north... in order to destroy the cosmic The Krasnoyarets newspaper of 13 intruder with all its contents. When July 1908 reported: we came to assess the probability of a large number of small Kezhemskoye village. On 17th (30th) at 7 am, a noise was fragments being produced by the smashing of the meteorite, the heard as if a strong wind was blowing. Immediately afterwards suggestion was put forward that the terminators' electromagnetic there was a terrible bang, accompanied by an earth tremor that charge possessed a specific property. The vector (charge) of a caused the buildings to literally shake and giving the impression terminator's magnetic field forced all the small remnants to that the building had been delivered a powerful blow by some become magnetically attached to it, and then everything was huge log or heavy stone. The first blow was followed by a second, destroyed by the energy of the next explosion. Then for 5-6 minutes there was something exactly like artillery fire: some 50-60 bangs at short, almost identical, intervals. Gradually the last bangs grew weaker. One and a half or two minutes after the end of the continuous "firing", six more bangs were heard, one after another, resembling distant cannon-shots but still distinctly audible and tangible by the shaking of the ground... The gigantic plasma spheres crashed into the meteorite fragments, The direction of the fallen tree trunks at the epicentre of the explosion. The gigantic plasma spheres ; crashed into the meteorite ; fragments, releasing a colossal amount of energy in order to destroy the cosmic intruder... 52 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2005