Giant fireball crashes in Columbia
Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fireball" that fell from the sky in the Santander department, central Colombia, was a meteorite. The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday. Andina.com reported that Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed that the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter when it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander. Colombian air force helicopters were commissioned to fly over the area to try to locate the source of the explosion. The director of the University of Nariño's Astronomic Observatory, Alberto Quijano, told RCN Radio Sunday that he believed the object was a meteorite. In rural areas of Santander, police received...
Asteroid warning: Get ready for the big one, astronauts say
MONTREAL—Canadian and American astronauts say the world should already be preparing for the big one — the asteroid that could some day strike the Earth causing death and destruction. “You're just sticking your head in the sand if you think the world will live out its entire natural life until the end of our sun and never be hit by another big rock,” Canada's Chris Hadfield said in an interview. “That's just foolishness. That's just ignorance.” The Canadian Space Agency astronaut is the current president of the Association of Space Explorers...
Two asteroids to fly past Earth
A cosmic coincidence is going to happen on September 8 when two asteroids will fly past Earth at a distance closer than the Moon. However, there is no threat of the asteroids impacting the Earth. This unprecedented coincidence provides an exciting observing challenge for amateurs although those observing from the UK will not have the best views, said Mount Lemmon Survey that searches for potentially hazardous asteroids. Asteroids are small solar system bodies in orbit around...
'Images' of Jesus around the world
The resemblance was reported by drivers on Highway 26 in rural Jeff Davis parish. One of them, Rickey Navarre, told US television station KPLC: “It just caught my eye. I said to myself that sure looks like an image of Jesus hanging from the telephone pole." In July however, his ‘face’ was spotted in an image picked up by Google Earth. A man from Southampton spotted the outline in satellite pictures of a field on farmland near Puspokladany in Hungary. In April, a family claimed to have seen his image in a discarded piece of chewing gum after...
'Expect nuclear war if US attacks Iran'
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his first open-air rally since a near-death illness four years ago, has warned about the threat of a nuclear war if the United States or Israel attack Iran. The 84-year-old revolutionary leader, wearing his trademark olive green uniform, completed a return to public life on Friday and addressed thousands of students and others at the University of Havana in...
Shock plan: Palestinians scheduled to govern Jews
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly has proposed a new plan whereby Jews living in the West Bank will remain in their communities after the territory becomes part of a Palestinian state, WND has learned. Officials in both Israel and the Palestinian Authority have confirmed the plan to this reporter, marking the first time an Israeli leader has ever put on the table...
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