11 August THURSDAY
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A space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city – possibly inspiring the story of the People of Lut.
As the people of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam did their daily business, one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an icy space rock was speeding toward them at about 61,000 km speed. Through the atmosphere, the rock exploded in a massive fireball about 4 kilometres above the ground. The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Air temperatures rose above 2,000 degrees Celsius. Clothes and wood immediately burst into flames. Swords, spears, bricks and pottery began to melt. Almost immediately, the entire city was on fire. None of the 8,000 people or any animals in the city survived – their bodies were torn apart and their bones blasted into small pieces. About a minute later, 14 miles (22 km) to the west of Tall el-Hammam, winds from the blast hit the city of Jericho. Jericho’s walls came down and the city burned to the ground.
It all sounds like a Hollywood disaster movie but these details are what scientific studies tell us about what happened there.
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