The headlines of the Chinese media are full of information that a meteorite has fallen in the vicinity of Beijing. But was this meteorite really? And was it just a meteorite at all
A major scandal erupts in China over media reports about a meteorite that allegedly collapsed in Beijing. The fact of the fall of the "meteorite" was seen by many residents of the Chinese capital. The Internet is replete with reports of a mysterious "heavenly body" that collapsed on Beijing.
But no one has yet found the meteorite itself. They are looking for him in the vicinity of the Baihuashan highlands. Confused only by the increased activity of the military, who, according to rumors, are also conducting their searches in the mountains. Moreover, there are rumors that the fallen object was not a meteorite at all. In the blogosphere, the version that a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Beijing is gaining more and more popularity.
In Beijing, a real "meteorite fever" began: the inhabitants of China rushed in search of a celestial body, which fell last week in the eastern suburbs of the metropolis, writes "China Daily". According to the newspaper, last Wednesday many townspeople observed this phenomenon, and then shared their impressions on the Internet.
Other Internet users did not believe the eyewitnesses and took their statements with irony, and most of the comments boiled down to jokes like "Transformers have arrived." However, a little later, the Beijing observatory confirmed the fact of the fall of a rather large meteorite and published a two-second survey that captured this phenomenon.
Immediately after the official confirmation, many took on the mission at all costs to find the heavenly body, which has already been dubbed "the find of the century." It is known that the meteorite landed in the highlands of Baihuashan, but astronomers cannot name the exact place of the fall. According to their estimates, it is located at a distance of 40 - 100 km from the center of Beijing.
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