All posts tagged: meteors

It is a sign? Several homes hit by meteors in recent months

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13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. (Revelation 6:13 NIV) An interesting article on Israel365 News reported on the number of houses around the world which have been hit by meteors in recent months and suggests that the number of meteor strikes is on the rise. April 25, 2023: Four meteors hit the town of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. One of the meteors, which was about 2.6 inches (6.6 cm) in diameter, actually smashed through the roof of a home. Though the three other meteors did not hit property, one of them which just missed a garden weighed 3.5 kilograms. May 8, 2023: A meteor cut through the roof of a house in Hopewell Township, New Jersey. Fortunately, no one was injured by the metal meteor said to be 4 inches (ca. 10 cm) by 6 inches (ca. 15 cm) in size. It was part of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower that happens annually. November 7, 2022: It’s believed that a …

Is a meteor responsible for burning down a California home?

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Authorities believe that a fire which destroyed a home in Nevada County, California on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, may have been started by a meteor, Breitbart reports. The blaze took place during the Taurid meteor shower which occurs annually and peaked this year on Nov 4 and Nov 5 and will peak again on Nov 12 and 13. The meteors which are part of the debris from a small comet named Encke, are of larger size and last longer before burning up in the earth’s atmosphere. Astronomers were predicting that this year’s display would be larger than normal. The San Francisco Chronicle provides more details: The fire was reported at 7:25 p.m. in the Mooney Flat area and was contained by 8:55 p.m., said Fire Captain Clayton Thomas of the Penn Valley Fire District. It occurred the same night the Taurid meteor shower was underway, and many residents reported seeing a bright light shoot across the sky and appear to land in the area near the home immediately before the fire began. The fire destroyed …

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The silence was deafening, but not the explosion

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According to a report by BBC, around noon on December 18, 2018, a large meteor/small asteroid exploded over the Bering Strait. The Bering Strait is the body of water separating Russian and Alaska and the explosion took place closer to the Russian side near the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was first reported by the US Air Force who caught the explosion with a military satellite and passed the information on to NASA, that was given the responsibility of tracking near-Earth asteroids by the US government in 2005. However, this one had completely escaped NASA’s notice. The asteroid, that was several meters in size, was traveling at 20 miles (32kms) per second and exploded about 26 kilometers above the Bering Strait. Though it safely exploded over water, there was concern because it was near commercial airline routes. The explosion, estimated at 173 kilotons, was ten times the power of Hiroshima and was described as “historic” by Lindley Johnson who works with NASA’s planetary defense division responsible for tracking asteroids. Johnson said it was the the second largest …