Record meteorite hit Norway
If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb.
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Nice to find some news on this. CNN has nothing - just stale old science stories that have been featured for a while.<br><br>I hope the Tuesday Science Times section of the New York Times has something.<br><br>Clear skies, Alan
Congratulations to farmer Peter Bruvold for taking the photograph. I first heard about this by a query in the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA) e-mail. <br> Thanks to ASTROMART for posting more details. <br> I wonder if the military satellites and radar picked up on this occurrence?<br> We live in fascinating times, eh? <br> Nicholas Dudish, Ilion, NY USA 13357
I wonder if this type of strike happened in the middle of the Atlantic, would anybody have noticed?
This is fun, a meteorite strike effects calculator. A few years ago a small asteroid passed the earth by about 1/3 the distance to the moon. I thought it would be fun to see something like that, or the Berringer meteor hit the earth. (Part of my idea of fun is Godzilla, Robots, explosions, you get the idea). Then I read in one of the popular astronomy magazines that if you were close enough to see one, you would be instantly blinded by the UV radiation. You would get an extreme UV sunburn and would die an agonizing death in several days. Except that the shock and blast wave and ejecta would kill you in a few minutes anyway.<br><br>here's the link:<br><br>http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/<br><br>Over on slashdot somebody claimed that meteors this size hit the earth every 5 years. I guess we've been lucky so far.<br>Steven
"Here's where the meteorite hit"<br><br>Residents of the Norwegian county of Nord-Troms were shaken when a meteorite struck the valley of Reisadalen last week. Experts are debating its impact, but they've found the site where it hit the ground.<br><br>This is where last week's meteorite is believed to have hit Norway, at Reisadalen, east of Tromsø.<br><br>A local farmer caught the meteorite streaking last Wednesday through the night sky, which remains quite light because of the midnight sun at this time of year.<br><br><br>An astronomer at the University of Oslo, Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, told Aftenposten.no last week that he thought the meteorite that was photographed streaking through the sky could have had the same impact as the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima in 1945.<br><br>"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.<br><br>Truls Lynne Hansen of the Northern Lights Observatory (Nordlysobservatoriet) in Tromsø disputes Røed Ødegaard's description, calling it an exaggeration.<br><br>"Our atmosphere is peppered with small stones from outer space all the time," Hansen told newspaper Aftenposten. "Most burn up and disappear, but some land here."<br><br>He thinks that what hit northern Norway last week was a stone weighing around 12 kilos (about 26 pounds). "Out in space it generated enormous speed, but after entering our atmosphere its tempo eased," Hansen said. "This kind of meteorite isn't radioactive and it's not glowing when it hits the ground."<br><br>The meteorite, whatever its size, created a stir nonetheless. Norway's Defense Ministry tries to track all flying objects and be prepared via radar on land, at sea and in the air.<br><br>"We can observe such meteorites," said John Espen Lien of the northern military command in Bodø. "But everything happens so fast, and most of them disappear before they hit the ground."<br><br>Aftenposten's reporter<br>Ole Magnus Rapp<br><br>Aftenposten English Web Desk<br>Nina Berglund
<blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>ROBERT MOORE said:</i><br><br>"Here's where the meteorite hit"<br><br>This is where last week's meteorite is believed to have hit Norway, at Reisadalen, east of Tromsø.<br><br>An astronomer at the University of Oslo, Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, told Aftenposten.no last week that he thought the meteorite that was photographed streaking through the sky could have had the same impact as the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima in 1945.<br><br>Truls Lynne Hansen of the Northern Lights Observatory (Nordlysobservatoriet) in Tromsø disputes Røed Ødegaard's description, calling it an exaggeration.<br></div></blockquote><br>What a disappointment, it looks less like Hiroshima and more like some kids had been setting off cherry bombs. I was hoping for miles of blown-down trees, lakes vaporized by the heat, a quarter mile wide crater, that sort of thing. Oh well, one can't have everything. <br><br>But the Aftenpost story about the giant hare that confronted a team of sled dogs was certainly entertaining! <br><br>Robert Howe <br><br>
I just found it amazing that not one main stream news media said anything about this. Just gives you the warning that unless many people die or get hurt they won't let you know. This is real important to understand. At least someone got a photo of this.
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