Meteoriteneinschlag in Jordanien (gestern)

Geschrieben von Rotjankerl am 24. April 2001 16:31:14:

April 23 8:37 PM SGT

Meteorite crashes near mourning Jordanian village

AMMAN (AFP) - Residents of a Jordanian village attending a
funeral got an unwelcome surprise when a fiery meteorite
crashed down in their midst, one of them told AFP Monday.

"More than 100 of us were gathered Wednesday at sundown to
bury a village resident when we saw a strange object that
looked like a ball of fire," said Mohammed Nawaf Mikdadi,
mayor of Beit Eidess, some 85 kilometers (50 miles) north of
Amman.

"The meteor shot through the sky from west to east before a
part of it came down a half kilometer (quarter mile) from
the village, sparking an explosion and then a fire with
four-meter (12-foot) flames for 10 meters (100 feet)
straight," Mikdadi told AFP.

"The villagers thought it was a missile, but when we went to
the spot there weren't any metal scraps," he said.

The mayor expressed relief the meteorite fell on a rocky
area near Beit Eidess and not in a nearby forest, which
could have spelled disaster for the village.

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