* Astronomy

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Home -> Astronomy News -> Meteorite News -> Tel Aviv meteorite
Post Info TOPIC: Tel Aviv meteorite
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: Tel Aviv meteorite
Permalink  
 

A mysterious object that seemed to fall from the heavens onto a crowded beach near Tel Aviv turns out to have had more earthly origins.
The small burning rocklike object attracted plenty of curiosity when it landed last month on a beach in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv. Initially it was identified as a meteorite, but after high amounts of phosphorous were detected, experts have concluded it was man-made.
Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

When I was at first alerted to this story, I watched the videophone footage of the 'meteorite' after it had "fallen from the sky" (according to Israeli police) and punched a hole through a surfboard, I instantly realised it wasn't a meteorite or anything else cosmic in origin for that matter.
Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Tel Aviv object
Permalink  
 

Bat Yam 'meteor' is manmade object

Geological Survey of Israel in Jerusalem made an official and unequivocal announcement that the unidentified object that landed at the Bat Yam beach on Saturday was not a meteor, but a man-made object.
Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: Tel Aviv meteorite
Permalink  
 

Rocket found in waters off Israel's southern coast

Remains of a rocket have been discovered in the waters off Israel's southern border, just days after one struck neighbouring Jordan, across the Red Sea.
Israeli media had reported Thursday that two rockets hit Jordan's Red Sea port city of Aqaba and Israel's nearby port of Eilat.
Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

tlvpolice



__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

An unidentified object, thought to be a fragment of a meteorite, has landed on a beach near Tel Aviv.
Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

It can't be a meteorite

Expert says police wrong, unidentified object that landed on beach Saturday not a meteorite

So what really landed on a Bat Yam beach? Lifeguards at the religious beach in Bat Yam were excited Saturday when an unidentified objected landed from the sky and kept burning.
However, an expert says the police are wrong to assume the object was a small meteorite.
Read more

__________________
Page 1 of 1  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
Home -> Astronomy News -> Meteorite News -> Tel Aviv meteorite


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse 		Powered by ActiveBoard