Tunisia was hit with a Meteorite

[lovuian]

http://www.jawharafm.net/tounsia/33909-2013-09-15-22-47-34.html

a large space meteorite has just landed in the south of Tunisia specifically in a desert area depopulated in Remada COR of the mandate of Tataouine and had heard a huge 3 loud explosions in the area.

[Electric Monk]

1. Tataouine? Isn't that the planet Luke Skywalker came from?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tatooine

[The Straight Story]

2. It was not a meteorite, was an escape pod

It was the droids we were looking for.

[jberryhill]

5. No, these are not the droids you are looking for

[pinboy3niner]

3. "What a desolate place this is"

--C-3PO

[jberryhill]

4. Didn't they shoot some of that film in Tunisia

[cui bono]

13. Yes. The sets are still there...

http://imgur.com/a/DvubZ/noscript

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Well, now we know where George got the name.

[cui bono]

12. That's what they want you to believe...

but actually it was in the Tunisian desert:

http://imgur.com/a/DvubZ/noscript

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Isn't "space meteorite" kind of redundant?

what other kind is there?

[jberryhill]

16. Actually, it's contradictory

There are no meteorites in space.

[uppityperson]

8. Any chance of a link that most of us can read? Here is clip from the link...

أكد مراسنا ان نيزكا فضائيا كبيرا سقط منذ قليل في الجنوب التونسي تحديدا في منطقة صحراوية خالية من السكان في معتمدية رمادة من ولاية تطاوين و قد سمع دوي 3 إنفجارات ضخمة في هذه المنطقة.

هذا وتنقلت على عين المكان وحدات من الحرس الوطني والجيش للتحري ومعاينة النيزك حسب ما أكده مراسلنا.

[Deep13]

10. I hate computer screen Arabic. It's too tiny to make out the letters clearly. nt

[whttevrr]

14. Google Translate

Mrasna confirmed that a large space meteorite fell since few in the south, specifically in the Tunisian desert region depopulated in Remada COR of the mandate of Tataouine and had heard a huge 3 loud explosions in the area.

This moved on the spot and units of the National Guard and the military to investigate and preview the meteor as confirmed by our correspondent.

[uppityperson]

9. Aha, found a link and yes, it inspired the name Tatooine.

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2013/09/16/meteor-strikes-tatouine-home-of-star-wars/

Over the weekend, Tunisia received a jolt from a galaxy far, far away.

A space object, likely a meteorite, fell on Sunday in a rural desert area of the Tataouine governorate in southern Tunisia, not far from the filming location of the first Star Wars movie, according to local radio reports.

Witnesses, according to Radio Tataouine, say that a bright object was seen falling from the sky at around 8 p.m. and then exploded on the ground. The streaking space object was reportedly visible from the city of Tataouine, the governorate’s capital.


Tataouine inspired the name of Luke Skywalker’s home planet in the Star Wars films, although series creator spelled it “Tatooine.”

And another fun story about it
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/star-wars-escape-pod-lands-tunisian-desert-170900104.html

[hootinholler]

17. Can we please teach basic Newtonian physics to all journalists?

From meteorite to exploding on the ground, this is shoddy reporting.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. reminds me of the meteor that hit somewhere in Russia I think about a year ago.

[Bosonic]

15. I've got a bad feeling about this R2...