Meteorite hits Cambodia, sparks fires.......omen of peace?

[Dover]

Meteorite hits Cambodia, sparks fires

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Posted: 12:33 PM EST (1733 GMT)



PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuters) -- A 4.5 kg (10 lb) meteorite which landed in a former Khmer Rouge zone of northwest Cambodia started fires across rice fields and prayers from villagers who saw it as a divine omen of peace.

"Some farmers are angry with the rock because it caused fires and destroyed several hundred hectares of their paddy fields," said Sok Sareth, police chief of Banteay Meanchey province, around 200 miles northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh.

"But others asked the police to leave it where it landed and put it on shrine to pray for peace," he told Reuters on Wednesday.

The black lump of celestial rock sent villagers scurrying for cover when it thumped into the ground in the war-scarred southeast Asian nation on Monday morning....cont'd

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/01/26/cambodia.meteorite.reut/index.html

[lenidog]

1. I saw a picture of it

looks more like a lump of sculptures clay that someone let out to harden.

[Dover]

2. If you know of a link to some pictures, please post them!

thanks.

[lenidog]

3. No problem

let me go find it again.

[lenidog]

4. Here is the link to a pic of it

I guess you can't post a link to a yahoo pic. But now I will hunt down a pic of it to post

[lenidog]

5. Lets try this

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=4&u=/nm/20050126/sc_nm/cambodia_meteorite_dc


Well at least the link to the story worked. There you can hit the picture of the cop holding the meteorite and then go through the slide show showing it up close.

[Dover]

6. Many thanks! Good to have another story on this topic too.

Looks like Reuters did the original story..

[lenidog]

7. Sorry it took me so long

I tried other places but it seems that Reuters has the only pics so far.