Showing posts with label Indonesian Asteroid Fireball 8OCT2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesian Asteroid Fireball 8OCT2009. Show all posts

06 November 2009

Indonesia Meteor/Meteorite News- Bone, Indonesia Large Meteor Detonates 8OCT09 6NOV09

Ledakan Bone: Sukhoi Atau Meteor Jatuh?


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INILAH.COM, Makassar - Ledakan keras di kawasan Teluk Bone, Sulsel, mengejutkan warga. Saksi sempat melihat ada bola api di angkasa. Benda apakah itu gerangan? Warga berspekulasi benda itu adalah jet tempur Sukhoi atau meteor yang jatuh.

Warga bernama Kasmir mengaku melihat ada bola api di langit dan kemudian berbentuk memanjang saat jatuh. "Cahaya api itu bukan pesawat jatuh, sebab bentuknya memanjang yang penuhi api seperti sebuah meteor besar," katanya di Bone, Kamis (8/10).

Warga lainnya yang berdomisili di sekitar Teluk Bone menuturkan suara ledakan terdengar di atas laut. Sehingga mereka menduga ledakan itu disebabkan meledaknya sebuah pesawat yang melintas di wilayah itu.

Sampai saat ini, informasi yang beredar masih simpang siur. Beberapa warga menyebutkan, selain ledakan pesawat, kemungkinan suara ledakan juga berasal dari pesawat jet tempur Sukhoi yang sementara latihan di wilayah itu.

Seorang warga lainnya, Rusmin, menyebutkan ledakan tersebut disebabkan aksi bom ikan yang dilakukan nelayan setempat. Ratusan warga Kecamatan Awangpone di perbatasan Kabupaten Bone-Wajo, dilaporkan bergerak melakukan pencarian asal suara ledakan itu.

Indonesian-English Machine Translation:

INILAH.COM, Makassar - loud explosion in the Gulf of Bone, South Sulawesi, surprising residents. Witnesses saw a fireball in the sky. The thing is it hell? Residents speculated it was a Sukhoi fighter jet or a meteor that fell. People called Kashmir claimed to see a fireball in the sky and then elongated shape when dropped. "Light the fire was not a plane crash, because the elongated shape such as a fire filled a large meteor," he said at the Bone, Thursday (8 / 10). Other citizens who are living in the Gulf of Bone tells us about the explosions sounded in the sea. So they suspected the explosion was caused by explosion of a plane that crossed the region. Until now, information is still circulating maze. Some people say, other than a plane explosion, explosive sound may come from Sukhoi fighter jets that while training in the area. A fellow citizens, Rusmin, said the explosion was caused by fish bombing carried out the local fishermen. Hundreds of residents in the border district Awangpone Bone-Wajo, reportedly moved to search the sound blast.

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