LarryCurleyMoe Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 Check this out! Seems like a sizeable meteorite has hit Norway! Meteorite! Quote
Noj Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 Yikes, very lucky it didn't hit a populated area. Quote
Big Wheel Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 Is this for real? This is the only source for the story on Google News. Quote
catesta Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 Is this for real? This is the only source for the story on Google News. Good question. You would think if it was real, it would have have been a little more heavily reported. Quote
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 (edited) The weirdest thing is what happened after that sucker crashed. That's some cause & effect for ya. Record meteorite hit Norway As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. Peter Bruvold witnessed the meteorite streaking across the night sky. PHOTO: PETER BRUVOLD The map shows the meteorite's direction of fall (the arrow) and the possible impact area over Troms and Finnmark counties. At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok. Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his mare Virika was about to foal for the first time. "I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash. "I heard the bang seven minutes later. It sounded like when you set off a solid charge of dynamite a kilometer (0.62 miles) away," Bruvold said. Astronomers were excited by the news. "There were ground tremors, a house shook and a curtain was blown into the house," Norway's best known astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten.no. Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms. "This is simply exceptional. I cannot imagine that we have had such a powerful meteorite impact in Norway in modern times. If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb. Of course the meteorite is not radioactive, but in explosive force we may be able to compare it to the (atomic) bomb," Røed Ødegaard said. The astronomer believes the meteorite was a giant rock and probably the largest known to have struck Norway. "The record was the Alta meteorite that landed in 1904. That one was 90 kilos (198 lbs) but we think the meteorite that landed Wednesday was considerably larger," Røed Ødegaard said, and urged members of the public who saw the object or may have found remnants to contact the Institute of Astrophysics. Aftenposten's Norwegian reporter Nina Lødemel Aftenposten English Web Desk Jonathan Tisdall Email this article Print this article Most tipped Record meteorite hit Norway Mooning can mean expulsion Norway dumps Wal-Mart stock More Muslim contact Angry hare attacked dogsled Norway wants answers Police warn against hoarding cash More flight delays Apple iTunes gets fight in Norway US Embassy evacuated Most read Record meteorite hit Norway Mooning can mean expulsion Regrets nude photos Police warn against hoarding cash Norway dumps Wal-Mart stock Norway wants answers US Embassy evacuated More Muslim contact Arctic fever(Bildeserie) More sports nudity Edited June 9, 2006 by Son-of-a-Weizen Quote
7/4 Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 So where's da photo of this hole in the ground??? Quote
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