>>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.
"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.
"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.<<
Okay...reading the words carefully, I get the sense that there was a huge
sonic boom and no terminal burst. There was probably a meteorite that fell to
the ground somewhere. The report of it hitting a mountainside may be assumed and
not necessarily had hit the ground with the power of a hiroshima bomb.
It may have simply dropped. This just may be the sensation people got from the
air sonics as it passed over and not the sounds of an impact. There doesn't seem
to be any eyewitness account of actually seeing it hit the
ground. Maybe that will show up later? On the other hand, if it did
hit the ground while still incandescent...then it must be a whopper...perhaps
ten tons or more.
George Zay
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