Cirebon-Indonesian citizens, Wednesday night, August 18, 2010, was startled by an object dropped from the sky misterus. National Aeronautics and Space Institute has not verify it as a meteorite. This is because the material is different from the usual meteorites.
Objects found in the form of a melt and burn when he fell. This happens only once.
"Items found at the scene of the melt and burn when it fell. Only once this happens like that," the researchers said Lapan, Thomas Djamaludin.
National Aeronautics and Space Institute also received information from the surrounding community who watched, it glided back to Earth with such light is burning out. Light, said Knopf, seen by the people who are quite distant locations.
"From the testimony of the community, when slid down, it can be seen from the people who were three miles from the scene," he said.
According to Knopf, has been found in meteorites that fell to earth does not exist in the form of a melt, usually in the form of solid or ice.
"If the meteorite, which is common for this is in the form of iron, rock, a mixture of iron and rock, and the most rare is the ice," he said. "The meteorite in the form of ice is very rare because it melts before reaching the earth."
Thus, he said, Lapan can not conclude whether the objects that fall in Cirebon was indeed a meteor. Lapan, said Knopf, still need time to examine the elements contained therein. "It should be further analyzed to determine its chemical composition and object is what from where," he said.
On location, objects falling from the sky was a hole about one meter in diameter and cause a stinging smell of sulfur. It was melting so menghujam ground, and thunderous noise.
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