That is one huge deserted area, lots of empty forest for a meteorite to be lost in. I will wait till pieces are reported, then damn skippy, I will be there. Otherwise, see all my European friends in Ensisheim in a week! Mike Farmer PS, we only found on Glorieta yesterday, we got caught up on top of a mountain during a huge thunderstorm and were soaked to the bone for about 2 hours, hiding from lightning bolts, and then slip-sliding back down the mountain in clay mud! And people wonder why Glorieta costs so much!
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece > > Record meteorite hit Norway > As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable > to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
