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From: Dan Syes <dsyes@micron.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:23:50 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 04:14:34 -0400
Subject: Ice in The Sky


Blocks of ice crash down from sky in Brazil

22 July 1997  Web posted at: 22:47 ART, Buenos Aires time (01:47 GMT)

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuter)
- Two large blocks of ice which
  crashed in Brazil's Sao Paulo state from clear skies are most likely
  part of a meteorite, a Brazilian researcher said Tuesday.

 "It's very strange. In principle they look like normal ice, have no
  smell. But we are analyzing the two blocks and we should have
  something at the end of this week," said Jurandir Zullo, researcher
  at the Campinas State University.

 "I think the most likely answer is that they are part of a meteorite,"
  he added.

  The first block of ice slammed through the tiled roof of a bus
  factory July 11 in Campinas, 62 miles north of the state capital of
  Sao Paulo.

 "People who saw it just after it landed said that it was around eight
  inches by 31 inches," Zullo said.

 "They then put it in the freezer but it still melted a little. When we
  got there, it weighed about 110 lbs," he added.

  The second block plummeted down on July 15, causing a small
  crater in a rural area some 37 miles north of Campinas.

  Officials at the local airport at Campinas have ruled out the
  possibility the ice may have fallen off a passing aircraft.

 "The tower at the airport has said there were no airplanes passing
  when the ice blocks fell," Zullo said.

 A meteorologist at the National Institute for Space Studies said
 there was no climatic feature on both days which could have
 accounted for the two ice blocks.

 "I am also very curious," he said. Zullo said he had only heard of
 one other previous incident in Brazil when a crater was found in the
 Amazon and scientists suspected a block of ice which had
 subsequently melted.

 In April 1995, Chinese experts, saying it could be a scientific  first
recovered what they believed to be chunks of meteoric ice that
 plummeted to earth in Zheijang province.

  Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.