MarketNeutral
25th April 2010, 10:59 PM
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.
"Meteorites are never on fire and they don't generate smoke," said Darryl Pitt, founder of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites, one of the largest of its kind. "Even though they are referred to as 'fireballs,' they are not balls of fire; what we see in the night sky is merely the luminescence of super-heated gases."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IHokAMw624&feature=player_embedded
However, an expert says the police are wrong to assume the object was a small meteorite.
"Meteorites are never on fire and they don't generate smoke," said Darryl Pitt, founder of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites, one of the largest of its kind. "Even though they are referred to as 'fireballs,' they are not balls of fire; what we see in the night sky is merely the luminescence of super-heated gases."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IHokAMw624&feature=player_embedded