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SUSPECTED METEOR: Unease as ‘mystery stone’falls from the sky in Taraba

About 10:45 am on March 12, farmers and hunters in Tse-Agena area of Mbatyula in Takum local government area of Taraba State heard a loud sound from the sky and then an object, suspected to be meteorite stone, landed.

The landing of the white object created panic.

Women and children were asked to vacate the farms immediately while men went to pick the object.

Mr. Shausu Agena, a farmer and an eye witness, said the object landed on a big tree in an empty farm land.

Agena, while speaking to Sunday Vanguard inside his hut in the village, said heavy sound accompanied the falling of the object from the sky.

The clan head of Mbatyula, Zaki Bem Tom, also disclosed that the object landed with a sound that was heard in several communities.

“It was in the morning. People were in their various farms when the object landed within our community. It was very shocking because some of us that witnessed it descending from the sky thought it was the end of the world,” Ben Tom said.

“It took our brave men to go closer to the object so that we will know what it was. Initially when the object landed, it was pure white in color. Human faces were reflecting on the object like mirror. Then it turned pure black.

“We have been living in fear because we don’t know what will follow”.

The village head said the community reported the incident to the state government immediately and the Director of Minerals Resources was sent to Mbatyla.

“Before the official came, we had already removed the stone for safe-keeping and the person who kept the stone was not around when the Director visited.

Therefore, the Director could not see the stone.

“We are calling on government to commission a study of our area following the incident because we may be affected one day by nature”.

When ed, Taraba State Commissioner for the Environment, Mrs. Rebecca Manasseh, pleaded with the community to release the stone to the state government so that it could study it.

Rebecca, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard on phone, confirmed that the state sent its Director of Mineral Resources to the area after the incident was report to ascertain the nature of the ‘mystery stone’.

She promised that her ministry was ready to investigate the issue as soon as the stone was released to the state government.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/suspected-meteor-unease-mystery-stonefalls-sky-taraba/

Hmm..
More generally, a meteorite on the surface of any celestial body is a natural object that has come from outer space. Meteorites have been found on the moon[1][2] and Mars.[3] Meteorites that are recovered after being observed as they transit the atmosphere or impact the Earth are called meteorite fall. All other meteorites are known as finds. As of February 2010, there are approximately 1,086 witnessed falls having specimens in the world's collections. There are more than 38,660 well-documented meteorite finds.[4]

Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material. Modern classification schemes divide meteorites into groups according to their structure, chemical and isotopic composition and mineralogy. Meteorites smaller than 2mm are classified as micrometeorites.


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I read and copied the above information through Google, I am not a scientist. Just wanted to understand the situation .

If its a meteorite the effect of the impact will be more devastating than this and by the way that pic is fake

It must possess some super power.

That pic is faker than even fake. Where dis blogger get dis smoked pix self?

isok

chocolateme:
Hmm..
More generally, a meteorite on the surface of any celestial body is a natural object that has come from outer space. Meteorites have been found on the moon[1][2] and Mars.[3] Meteorites that are recovered after being observed as they transit the atmosphere or impact the Earth are called meteorite fall. All other meteorites are known as finds. As of February 2010, there are approximately 1,086 witnessed falls having specimens in the world's collections. There are more than 38,660 well-documented meteorite finds.[4]

Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material. Modern classification schemes divide meteorites into groups according to their structure, chemical and isotopic composition and mineralogy. Meteorites smaller than 2mm are classified as micrometeorites.

Wikipedia at work.... Tat mean yhu go copy name when yhu dey copy from yhur friend...


Tat said I don't understand why africans can be so dumb... Am sure some alfa or pastor haf already started given false prophesies about the meteor....... Smh

Fake news
Fake pictures
Fake blog
And people are already believing

Oche211:
That pic is faker than even fake.
Where dis blogger get dis smoked pix self?

thanks jare.a very nice ànswer

slyIsaac:

Wikipedia at work.... Tat mean yhu go copy name when yhu dey copy from yhur friend...


Tat said I don't understand why africans can be so dumb... Am sure some alfa or pastor haf already started given false prophesies about the meteor....... Smh

you're ok now??

Wis that bokoharan bumbing or someones house is on fire, cant see any stone fallen ooo

If u believe d news and d link, u r a zombie...

Just remove "T" from taraba,then it becomes araba stones

Is this real Or itz a fairy tale

Bloggers

Segadem:
Just remove "T" from taraba,then it becomes araba stones

Joke?

That's meteorite joor,its called by exhaustion of fuel to sustain a star which leads to supernova

Mystery rain, mystery stone.
I prefer mystery rain to stone

This has happened at '1000 ways to die'. some guys threw large amound of cement particles from a plane to avoid crash.. These particles solidified through the humidity up there and it killed a guy who was molesting a girl... This stone is from cement not any planetry body

www., i also read it on this site

where are the geologists

ok na

End time stone

Ehen

scientists wot say ye

probably the stone was targeting buhari head..guy have finally answered our prayer

interesting

This type of thing must not fall some where like Oshodi in Lagos. The pandemonium it would create would kill people far more than the stone it self.

We call it Meteoritic bombardment. It is a rare occurrence that has happened several times in the Earth's history.

The site of that suspected Meteorite fall should be cordoned off for detailed Geological studies.

These people believe a lot in the supernatural as well as magic. It would be very difficult to have them convinced that the rock is a meteorite that failed to disintegrate completely before fall into earth. They will never accept it as a natural phenomenon.