To: blam
A large meteorite is thought to have smashed into a forest in a remote area of Russia. Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?
3 posted on
10/05/2002 12:07:03 PM PDT by
Mulder
To: Mulder
"Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?"
Funny you should ask. Some folks feel the sacred rock of the Ka'ba in Mecca is in fact of meteoric origin.
From
http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/legend.htm:
"The wall of the Ka'ba, the holiest shrine of Islam at Mecca contains a black stone that has been reported to be of meteoritic origin. The stone which measures 16 by 20 cm and is held together by a silver band. Legend has it that the angel Gabriel gave the stone to the patriarch Abraham who built it into his house. The stone passed to the prophet Mohammed who built it into the wall of the Ka'ba. The black stone is not an object of worship, but is a venerated relict. Students of the matter now believe that the black stone is not meteoric, but may be impact glass, perhaps from the meteor crater at Wabar, about 100 km from Mecca."
To: Mulder
"Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?" They did, where do you think they got the rock they worship?
12 posted on
10/05/2002 12:15:45 PM PDT by
blam
To: Mulder
Or New Joisey........
To: Mulder; RightOnTheLeftCoast; blam
Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?I have it on good authority that a meteor stream lasting from one week to two months will be falling in and around Baghdad sometime in the next two to four months.
Reportedly up to thousands of small to medium sized meteors, highly accurate.
To: Mulder
Isn't the "kabah" inside the Mecca mosque a black meteorite?
62 posted on
10/05/2002 1:31:42 PM PDT by
PokeyJoe
To: Mulder
Ditto!
65 posted on
10/05/2002 1:37:45 PM PDT by
reg45
To: Mulder
How about Baghdad?
75 posted on
10/05/2002 2:09:55 PM PDT by
pankot
To: Mulder
Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?The Kabaaba stone, the center of the Islamic universe is a meteorite.
Luke 10
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. (KJV)
To: Mulder
Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca? Actually, it once did. What do you think the Ka'aba Rock is?
To: Mulder
"Why can't these damn things ever hit somewhere like Mecca?" ROTFL! They'd know they were in deep do if God started throwing rocks at them huh?
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