Sky asks Egypt by the fiery rain Oxana GOLOLOBOVA,
on 16 July, 17:02

Arab OF THE MEDIA transfer, what to a number of villages in the South Egyptian province Of sokhag was brought down present fiery shower - the local population precisely thus described uncommon phenomenon. However, behind the beautiful name the serious catastrophe, which already ruined several inhabitants of the country, hides itself. Incandesced of &.tsuot;kapli&.tsuot; in an enormous quantity they fall from the sky to the roofs of buildings, igniting their covering straw and reed. Buildings flare up as matches, flame envelopped already more than 80 apartment houses. From the suffocation and the burns suffered about 60 people, perished at least two small children. In the Egyptian settlements, where fiery it is raining already the third day, constantly be on duty firemen. The police and the security forces of the country conduct consequence. Authorities attempt to explain the origin of so strange unknown a thus far phenomenon. There are already several versions of proceeding. Fire victims themselves are inclined to believe in the foreign metamorphoses, they assert that on their houses fell nothing else but the fireballs. Others attempt to explain tragedy by the everyday incidents: some indicate that when the temperature of air reaches +shchshch°S, in domestic animals and birds begins to rot the fur and feathers. The received burn cat or rabbit begins in panic to rush about on the court and it climbs to the roof of houses, which leads to the propagation of fire. However, scientists consider that the speech, most likely, it goes about the meteoritic rain: the pieces of rock flying from space light up in the atmosphere. However, the precise reason for mass fires, until now, so remains riddle. For the information: Meteoritic rain - unique astronomical phenomenon. Are known its several it is specific, which can be observed in the different season and with the different periodicity. For example, &.tsuot;zvezdnyy liven'&.tsuot;, called by astronomers &.tsuot;Leonid&.tsuot;, it is possible to see sufficiently rarely - every 33 years, when the comet of Temple, flies near the Earth. &.tsuot;Leonidy&.tsuot; - this of its particles, which being separated, generously sprinkle our planet. Its name phenomenon obtained because appear the meteorites from that part of the outer space, where is located Leo entsiklopedicheskiye's constellation publication they assert that the meteor shower earliest according to the observations was noted by Chinese as early as 1768 to our era. The Earth penetrates once every 130 years the dust tail of Swift -Tattla comet, and then meteoritic flow perseid reaches maximum activity, discarding on us thousands of &.tsuot;khvostovykh&.tsuot; meteorites. But generally, &.tsuot;padayushchiye of zvezdy&.tsuot; it is possible to observe each yr in the second-half of summer. It was always considered that they do not represent for the people of danger - particle they fly so far to our planet extremely rarely, and in the history yet not there was case so that the meteorite would do harm to man. True, more than 50 years in Great Britain the fragment of meteorite killed cow.