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| Meteor seen passing over Israel (or maybe not) |
| 2008-07-09 |
| A meteor was seen passing over Israel Tuesday night in many parts of the country. Ynet was flooded with calls from citizens residing in central Israel, the Sharon region, Jerusalem and the Krayot cities who reported seeing the object crossing the sky at approximately 8:15 pm. Some witnesses said they heard a shrieking sound. Eyewitness Ranik Kortzman said, "I was in my balcony when I suddenly saw an object with two trails passing over Kfar Saba from east to west. It was travelling at great velocity and made a shrieking sound – like a missile." Ram Raphaeli of Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon told Ynet "we were on the roof when my son turned my attention to a tiny object that was passing above us. It appeared to be a meteor with a trail. It was traveling horizontally at a relatively low altitude. We didn't hear any noise, but it flew by at great speed." Yigal Pat-El, chairman of the Israeli Astronomical Association and the director of the observatory in Giv'atayim told Ynet that "meteors enter the earth's atmosphere all the time. This is not a rare occurrence. "The reason we were able to observe this meteor is because it was relatively large. Most meteors don't weigh more than 1/1000 gram, and this one apparently weighed a few grams," he said. Test firing of a hypersonic missile maybe? |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #4 Think it would freak them out if we named a new ICBM the "12th Imam"? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-09 23:14 |
| #3 Was it heading to Iran? Could have been the 12th Iman, you know. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-07-09 10:36 |
| #2 I once saw a meteor burn up in the atmosphere. It was so close that I could see first a white glow that lit up the sky, then a red glow, and then nothing. In the light a tail was obvious, and the object didn't follow a straight line. There was a shriek. Scary. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-07-09 01:10 |
| #1 Meanwhile, Batman, over GUAM-WESTPAC ........... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-07-09 00:06 |