Fiery meteorite hits Latvia

How can you hoax a crater that well as to fool a large number of scientists?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/26/latvian-meteorite-impact-fake/#comments The Bad Astronomer's analysis of it.

Making a fake crater would be easy. Just a desiel fuel/fertilizer bomb put about 5 meters down a large post hole could make such a crater. I did it many times in Georgia as a Combat Engineer for the US Army. The question is rather... why bother? Attention? This was figured out in just a couple hours. Probably the authorities over there will lock up whoever did it.

They should have known it was fake as soon as they said something was burning in the bottom of it. Meteors quit burning at about 50,000 feet unless they are huge. Then it doesn't matter because everyone dies.

They should have known it was fake as soon as they said something was burning in the bottom of it. Meteors quit burning at about 50,000 feet unless they are huge. Then it doesn't matter because everyone dies. they may or may not quit burning at 50,000 feet but they stay hot enough to be seen on the ground when they hit. i say one my self hit. about the size of a marble and it cooled quickly after hitting but it was still glowing when it hit.