Fireballs and strange lights in the sky have been sighted from
California to Pennsylvania to Maine?and also in Canada,
Germany and the Netherlands. Can some of these be comets,
meteors or asteroids?and what's the difference between
them? Asteroids and meteors are space rocks, while a comet
is mostly made of ice.
Tony Phillips writes in the NASA that these sightings have
became so common during the end of October and beginning
of November that astronomers are calling them "Halloween
fireballs." Astronomer David Asher says, "People are probably
seeing the Taurid meteor shower." Every year around this
time, the Earth passes through a cloud of space dust. Every
grain of this dust hits our atmosphere at around 65,000 mph,
making a bright flash of light. In most years the shower
produces only around five dim meteors per hour, but this
year, for some reason, they?re much brighter than usual.
What makes them this way? According to Asher, the dust
particles bigger than usual, more like pebbles than grains of
dust. This dust cloud is all that?s left of a comet called Encke,
which was discovered in 1786, which broke apart 5,000 years
ago. When this happened, the night sky would have
resembled a fireworks display. By blocking the sun's light, the
debris could have led to the climate cooling that we know,
from measuring tree rings, took place from 2354 to 2345 BC.
Astronomer Benny Peiser studies history and religions for
evidence of this sort of occurance. He says, "I would not be
surprised if the notorious rituals of human sacrifice were a
direct consequence of attempts to overcome this trauma.
Interestingly, the same deadly cults were also established in
the Near East during the Bronze Age."
Planetary bodies have influenced modern religions as well. A
large meteorite is in the center of the mysterious mosque in
Mecca, which only Muslims can enter. In fact, they're
directed to make a pilgrimage there once a year.
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