After reports of a bright meteor there are reports of a meteorite recovered from northern Iran.
The area is around Zanjan (36.68 N 48.49 E).
ISNA report that the fall was at 20:15 local time (15:45 UTC) on Thursday 30th July, 2015.
On 27th of June 2015 around 8 A.M. a meteorite fell on a house roof in Famenin town in Hamedan Province of Iran. The related report/news is the
one that appeared in Nojum magazine...
Beside this fall, another meteorite fell in the evening of 30th of July in northern Iran. Those videos are about this event...
Around 08:30 am local time (GMT+3.5) on 27 June 2015, Reza Salimi, living in Famenin town of Hamedan Province, Iran, heard the sound of an impacting object onto the roof of his house. He discovered that part of the roof was damaged and fragments of a stone were spread on the roof. He found some other fragments in his yard. News of the meteorite fall propagated quickly via the local media. With the help of a local journalist, Hamed Pourkhorsandi (CEREGE) received a total of 25 g of fragments two weeks after the fall.
On Thursday, 2015 July 30, between 20:10 and 20:15 local time (+03:30 GMT), a very bright fireball appeared in the evening sky of N and NW Iran. Thousands of observational reports in the north to north-west of the country spread immediately in the local and international media. Very loud sonic booms were heard in Zanjan province. Ghadir Mohammadi, a farmer from Moshampa village was working in a field near the Moshampa village, close to the Qezel Ozan river when heard four loud booms (the last one the being much louder) and saw a zig-zag shaped cloud in the sky. After about two ', he heard the sound of an object falling into the wet soil about 5-10 m away from him. Worried it might be unexploded military ordnance, he went back to the village. He then heard about the fireball reports and realized that the army and police were looking for the object. The day after, he went back to the fall place and found a stone buried about 20 cm deep in a hole and informed the media about his finding. Hamed Pourkhorsandi received two pieces of the meteorite at CEREGE in 2015 October 7. A smaller stone had allegedly been recovered, but this information could not be verified during visit to the site in November 2015.
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