Meteor Jakarta

Meteor Jakarta - Whir sound that sounds hard. Then thundered. Thursday evening yesterday, Mother Timan, and her husband were serving customers in the salon. Heard the explosion they ran.

VI residents in Jalan Delima, Malakasari, East Jakarta was also pouring out of the house.

They ran to save themselves. Four houses were badly damaged. There were no fatalities. Many minor injuries.

The people there thought it was a bomb explosion. There also mentions sourced from gas cylinder explosion.

In this country, gas cylinder safety matters that are often underestimated. Injury and death due to explosion of gas cylinders had been frequent.

Those that are suspected explosion late yesterday it was the work of artisans of witchcraft. Sudarmojo, a resident whose home was badly damaged, initially convinced that this work witches. "I was not a Javanese, was still somewhat believe in the same black magic," he said.

Headquarters (HQ), Police sent a team of experts from the Central Forensic Laboratory (PUSLABFOR) to Malakasari. This special team. They are often deployed when a bomb blast occurred.

A few hours there, this team did not find an exploding gas cylinder, found no bomb residue, and of course, also have not found a witch.

Head of Ballistics Metallurgy Department, Police Headquarters, Commissioner of the Great, Amri Kamil, though after doing the crime scene (the scene) at home Sudarmojo ensure no explosives found there. He continued, "Physical explosive ada.Tidak not exist crater."

Three hours researching the location, Amri rectify news has circulated that there had been explosions in Duren Sawit. Actually, said Amri, who happened not explosions, but, "blow from heavy objects, which fell to earth at high speed." From Malakasari locations, the police took the dust, there is also a form of sand.

Allegation of objects falling from the ceiling, which was then suspected as a meteorite, also based on the forms of damage. Sudarmojo large perforated roof, but there was no residual blasts in the floor.

Revolves around several residents there that they could see things from the sky struck the house Sudarmojo.

Pipit, a 32-year-old resident said: "It was about four o'clock. The sky was overcast. I saw a kind of lightning, the light is very bright in the sky. With high speed, in seconds, the lights go down and grabbed Mr. Sudarmojo house."

It is true that the falling meteors? Being researched indeed. And a two-day results can be known. Professor Thomas Djamaluddin, experts from the Institute of Astronomy from Space and Aviation Agency (Lapan) said that the need to do is to examine the remaining chunk of dust or blast site.

Am I correct that if a meteor could hit the earth into dust? "That could happen if that kind of meteor fragile," said the professor. Police had been carrying the dust at the site of explosion. But Professor Djamaludin confirmed that dust could have come from meteor fragments fragile. "But it must still exist remnants of slab," she said.

Since the allegations about the meteor fell, a number of experts from Lapan glide to the location this afternoon. Professor Djamaluddin, who was sliding to Bogor, West Java, have reversed course and headed to the Duren Sawit East Jakarta.