Added several more fresh Moss CO3 pieces to my page, see link below.
Fell in Moss, Østfold, Norway on July 14, 2006.
There is now among others a georgeous 23.56 gram and a 95 gram,
The last one took a hard beating when it hit our modern world, which shows -
a unique real hammer.
Many smaller
Added several more fresh Moss CO3 pieces to my page, see link below.
Fell in Moss, Østfold, Norway on July 14, 2006.
There is now among others a georgeous 23.56 gram and a 95 gram,
The last one took a hard beating when it hit our modern world, which shows -
a unique real hammer.
The finnish and swedish text above the Luotolax oriented stone from
NHM, Helsinki reads:
In Savitipale one heard on December 13 1813 at 10 o'clock, a thunderlike
rumbling
and saw black clouds that moved fast. Numerous meteoritestones fell down
in the field and at the frozen lake. This peace
List,
Sorry this is off topic.
This has nothing to do with meteorites.
But I'm trying with some interest to determine which rock type is in the
picture on the link.
I need an 'international' answer, so this list could do the trick, I hope.
So if you have any idea about earthly rock types, I
be that the undulating layers are felsic lava. Does
this seem likely from
what you see in the 3 images? And do the white stones suggest any clues?
Two images of the layers:
tinyurl.com/l4aqx83
tinyurl.com/k6lzfh7
Bjørn
From: Bjorn Sorheim [astro...@online.no]
List,
Sorry this is off topic
List,
Have made a page with some good images of a large part
of my remaining 'Moss' CO3 pieces on a first come, first served basis,
see:
tinyurl.com/mossco3sale
more info:
tinyurl.com/astrogeo2013
(works best with Firefox/Google Chrome)
New low prices!
Bjørn Sørheim
Fell in Moss, Østfold, Norway on July 14, 2006.
Ending in two days:
5.73 g
www.ebay.com/itm/161019652050
3.67 g
www.ebay.com/itm/161019628505
1.81 g
www.ebay.com/itm/161019611984
Regards,
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Fell in Moss, Østfold, Norway on July 14, 2006.
Ending in two days:
5.73 g
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161019652050
3.67 g
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161019628505
1.81 g
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161019611984
Regards,
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Looking at the images I posted earlier today and the other smaller
fragments goverment scientists collected plus information about 1000+
small black meteorites from maybe one village, it seems this fall
deserves to be compared to the massive fall of pea-sized meteorites
like Pultusk, Poland
I just photographed somewhat larger meteorites from
Chelyabinsk/Chebarkul area off the russian TV channel Russia 24.
Not so big, but improving.
Starting with image 36 the two first is what local kids collected,
the next 3 is what a local woman had found. The last images
is what state searchers
List,
There seem to be posted two quite different images to the list about
the compass direction from where the meteor came on Friday 15,
morning (local).
Obviously one of them must be wrong. Surprising if the weather image
is wrong, how did that come about?
Which one is closest to the direction
at the bottom? Everything I have seen about this has said or
showed (in videos) that it came from near the Sun and was travelling to the
west.
Bob
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Hi Bob
The bottom image was posted to the list
very hard to observe debris clouds around
such small objects.
Bjørn Sørheim
Bjorne just a quick thought, wouldn't this impact been after the fact
given the passage of the NEO 2012DA14 instead of before if the events were
related?
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notice him speaking out.
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On 2/15/2013 11:35 PM, Bjorn Sorheim wrote:
Two completely different trajectories??
What the heck are you talking about?
They are quite similar. It would not at this point say they are identical
I must be starting praying for you MIke!!?
That's the most clueless article about these events I have ever seen.
Or someone purporting to know anything about celestial mechanics.
Wired and author Helene McLaughlin doesn't know a thing about celestial
mechanics.
The diagram is totally wrong,
Thanks for your general positive comment on this discussion.
I would agree with you on the .'more and more skeptical' about some
output of so called scientific knowlegde over the years.
Say any scientist or budding scientist have a model on some kind of aspect
of nature. The model can be quite
They are certainly not.
And who was it that brought forward this gelogical analysis to the wider
scientific community. It was me. I certainly didn't do any science on it.
I found it on their site. And posted it here. New Scientist then wrote
their first positive
scientific article as Carancas
Hello List,
I can't see in any way how your statements can be true, and I wonder
how anyone can. I would assume NASA has way more educated
professionals in this than you. Why do they say: 'Preliminary information
indicates ---
not related'? They would have been able to refute a strike for all
All the various arguments against it being a connection between the russian
meteor of today and the asteroid passage also today of 2012 DA14 are quite
shallow and actually faulty. The closest passage of a very large asteroid
object ever and the the most damaging (for humans) meteorite fall
The trajectory through the siberian atmosphere doesn't seem to be known with
very great precisison at the time.
I am working out from this statement from Jeremie Vaubaillon
on the [IMO-News] saying:
the bolide was heading very roughly North-East towards South-West.
Looking at the geometry of
Two completely different trajectories??
What the heck are you talking about?
They are quite similar. It would not at this point say they are identical.
In WHAT way are they _completely different_, elaborate please.
And don't be so d** arrogant, for christ sake.
I could mention that the foremost
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Dear List,
The Norwegian Astronomical Socierty (NAS) has a mailing list running for
about 15 years. All kinds of questions, answers and discussions about
topics in astronomy and related fields pops up.
I'm sorry to say that knowledge about meteorites is not great, but then you
might say that is
Greetings Bulletin Watchers,
17 new meteorites - one from Oklahoma (Magnum) and 16 various OC's from NWA.
But what about the one that fell through a roof in Paris during last summer.
Why haven't that one been approved at this time? Seems a long time since
the fall.
Any problems with that
This location in Oslo happen to have a high crime rate,
probably one of the highest in Norway. Murders, violence etc.
While studying in Oslo many years back I lived only a kilometer from
the fall location for many years. I run into one of the criminals while I
lived here.
The story is not so
This location in Oslo happen to have high crime rate,
probably one of the highest in Norway. Murders, violence etc.
While studying in Oslo many years back I lived only a kilometer from
the fall location for many years. I run into one of the criminals while I
lived here.
The story is not so
The 3.69 g 40% crusted CO3.6 'Moss' carbonaceous
meteorite fall from 2006 in Norway is ending in a few hours..
As fresh as a meteorite ever gets!
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I have a 3.69 g 40% crusted CO3.6 'Moss' carbonaceous
meteorite fall from 2006 in Norway on Ebay.
At a 3 day listing - ending on Tuesday.
As fresh as a meteorite ever gets!
www.ebay.com/itm/160725663886
Bjørn Sørheim
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I have the 55g 'Moss' CO3.6 on Ebay ending in 4 hours:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160581212048
Atractive looking piece.
Active bidding, but still a good buy.
All 'Moss' finds was 'hammer' stones, it's extremely fresh,
with no rust, just as when it came down back in 2006.
I have the 55g 'Moss' CO3.6 on Ebay currently ending
on Tuesday at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160581212048
This time with quite a low reserve price, so this
should be a good investment.
Not to forget that 'Moss' is a true 'hammer', and extremely fresh,
with no rust, just
I have the 7.00 g partly crusted CO3.6 'Moss' carbonaceous
meteorite fall from 2006 in Norway on a 3 day -listing, ending
on Saturday.
As fresh as a meteorite ever gets...
NO RESERVE!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160573150078
Bjørn Sørheim
I have the 7.00 g partly crusted CO3.6 'Moss' carbonaceous
meteorite fall from 2006 in Norway on a 3 day -listing, ending
on Saturday.
As fresh as a meteorite ever gets...
NO RESERVE!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160573150078
Bjørn Sørheim
List,
I have 3 'Moss' CO3.6 carbonaceous norwegian meteorite fall pieces from
midsummer day of 2006, including the 55 gram ending in about 10 hours:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160546880463
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160546860239
I certainly also have found mighty strange things while hunting for
meteorites.
In October 2006 I found for the first time in any of the nordic
countries a Borneo-dolphin aka 'Lagenodelphis hosei' on a rocky beach
facing the Atlantic ocean. It had become stuck in a gully, and was dead.
At first
I have a 2.78 g CO3.6 'Moss' carbonaceous meteorite fall (2006) ending
in about 24 hours:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160546836423
Several more, including a 55 gram!, ending on tuesday:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160546880463
Supposed to be Norway's 2nd largest meteorite, was just
old iron slag.
KJR Ødegaard was 99% certain it was a meteorite. Would
eat 'grey stones' if it was not!
I might recommend him staying with his heavy stars in the future.
At least norwegian press should stop using 'meteorite expert' about
. It is
common find (in smaller, unrefined pieces) anywhere
with well-watered acidic swampy meadows. It is created
by iron-excreting bacteria!
Sterling K. Webb
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www.grenda.no/nyhende/2127/
www.bt.no/forbruker/vitenskap/Fant-meteoritt-paa-gaarden-1172290.html
Norways TV-astronomer KJR Ødegaard helps decovers 2nd largest meteorite in
Norways history! It's hot on several norwegian newsmedia right now.
He will eat earthly 'greystone' ('gråstein') if it's
http://www.grenda.no/nyhende/2127/
http://www.bt.no/forbruker/vitenskap/Fant-meteoritt-paa-gaarden-1172290.html
Norways TV-astronomer KJR Ødegaard helps decovers 2nd largest meteorite in
Norways history! It's hot on several norwegian newsmedia right now.
He will eat earthly 'greystone'
I would point out some things that points to the pictured
norwegian stone is _not_ a meteorite:
- It looks striped and layered. This is a typical trait of the
gneissic stones on the western part of southern Norway
where this story is from. No meteorites are layered or
striped. It's a
I should just metion, to avoid a grave misunderstanding,
the metallic blue small rock below the 54/59 kg local
rock in the top image in the article below is KJR Ødegards
own Campo del Cielo, which he has been carrying about for many years.
So, by all means, forget that one...
Thanks Martin Bernd for the trend you have started.
Very impressing, but much more so with real meteorites!
I jumped on the trend myself, see below, but it is from
Norway and not a meteorite, I don't know if that is a trend...:-)
It weighs just half of Ødegaards stone - 26kgs.
On the other
On the theme of earthquakes and such, here is an interesting link to watch
at the moment:
http://epost.telenor.no/mobileoffice//mobileoffice/?cmd=mailsub=redirecturl=http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/
This
Ooops, there was an error, the link should start with eldgos,
like this:
eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/
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Notice, btw that this is _live_ video.
You can also choose two alternative views further
away on the left side.
These vents are currently situated right between two
fairly large mountaintop glaciers in southern Iceland -
at 1000 m asl.
The scientists think that the eruption with time will
move
Another article:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20080103.A05irec=4
Meteor fragment crater draws crowds to Gianyar
National News - Thursday, January 03, 2008
Ary Hermawan and Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Gianyar, Bandung
Residents in Sukawati village in
Hello List,
2 pieces of the CO3 fall last year in Norway on Ebay ending in a few hours:
Green markings from the fence it hit - a real 'hammer' !, 7.13g - 40% crusted
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=160193717776
From the same fence hit, a great little piece, 3.69g - 40%
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Hello List,
I got several more pieces of the CO3 fall last year in Norway on Ebay now:
7.13g - 40% crusted
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=160193717776
3.69g - 40% crusted
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=160193746825
1.82.g
Hello List,
Just wanted to tell you that I have a small piece of 'Moss' CO3 that fell
last year in Norway for sale on Ebay, see:
List,
The last link to Ebay didn't seem to be right, here (I hope) is the correct
one:
http://epost.telenor.no/mobileoffice//mobileoffice/?cmd=mailsub=redirecturl=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160192833049http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=160192833049
INGEMMET (Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico) of Peru have released
a first report
on the meteorite that created a ~14m crater in eastern Peru September 15 at
11:45 local
time.
It is said to be a chondrite with 15% kamacite, but no subtype given.
Pieces will be distributed to NASA, UK
I sent this on wedensday (07-09-19), but it never came to the list.
Art said he found it, blocked because it was html, and had released it
to the list, still it didn't arrive...
So I post it here again.
From: Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2007-09-19 17:59:00 CEST
To: meteorite-list
http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=490
COLLECTORS from as far as America have offered astronomical prices to get their
hands on the famous meteor of Didim.
The meteor was claimed by Abdullah Ar?türk when it rocketed to earth and
landed at the Green Park
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New FALL in Turkey
One reason would be that Turkey might in fact be the
most dangerous country in the world to remove a
meteorite from. Turkey has extreme laws about removal
List,
Taking into account that the Turkey fall happened in the afternoon of the 31st
of January (like the norwegian observations) and that the recent orange
snowfall
in Siberia was about the same time, is it not quite possible that these events
are connected?
The russians using elaborate
List.
Hey, what's the matter with YOU Lot!
There is A NEW FALL in Turkey is there NOT?!
Why no dicussion frenzy?
Why are you not SCRAMBLING to go there?!
I'm shure MIKE is?!
Looking at the pictures in the article, I can definitly say is
a stony meteorite, no doubt about it I would say...
(The
List.
Hey, what's the matter with YOU Lot!
There is A NEW FALL in Turkey is there NOT?!
Why no dicussion frenzy?
Why are you not SCRAMBLING to go there?!
I'm shure MIKE is?!
Looking at the pictures in the article, I can definitly say is
a stony meteorite, no doubt about it I would say...
(The
, btw.
Bjørn Sørheim
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Sent: 2006-10-06 23:03:26 CEST
To: Bjorn Sorheim [EMAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The geologist on the moon and Comet SWAN
Great job Bjorn! The first two pictures (the most important
List,
Just ran out last night with my camera when I read about
the comet on another list.
Had to go to another place because of the bad horizon.
Here's a page I made. Could be also helpful in locating it.
Congratulations to Rob Matson!
List,
If you have 'The Catalogue of Meteorites' or similar resource one
can quite esily find the falls (and finds) up to 2000.
But what about the most recent falls in later years.
Does anyone maintain a list or web-page of recent falls with
the most relevant information of each?
Would be a most
Michael Farmer wrote:
Hello everyone, well here is the preliminary
classification data on the MOSS Norway meteorite fall.
Dr Jeff Grossman is doing the classification and he
sent me the following information a little while ago.
.
Avg Fa PMD
Kainsaz (CO3.2) 11.8 70
Felix (CO3.3) 18.4 70
13th September 1937, 14:15h
Apparently spread out through the year quite randomly.
At 02:21 PM 8/30/2006, Bjorn Sorheim wrote:
Michael Farmer wrote:
Hello everyone, well here is the preliminary
classification data on the MOSS Norway meteorite fall.
Dr Jeff Grossman is doing the classification
: [meteorite-list] moss meteorite for private
collecters
Good luck to this friend who thinks he can get a
kilo. If you pay $200 gram to the owners of the ~680
gram fragment, and the other two guys Bjorn Sorheim
and Michael Mazur who refuse to admit how much
material they have. There is perhaps
Hello List,
I think the buyers of the 'Moss'-meteorite should be aware of the
fact that there are two kinds of material coming from the fall in
Moss, Norway:
1) The freshest is the material that was not affected by the heavy rains
from about the 30th of July.
Before this it was all dry (and the
Hello Robert,
Sorry for not answering yor email around the times I went to Moss.
I had no Internet acess there, and it was extremely hot and hectic
there too... :-)
You are right about the stone we first heard about on the 23rd
of July. Believe it or not that's my birthday! So it was a
Just out in many newspaper websites etc in Norway:
A 676 g CO meteorite was found after a roof started to leak following the
first rains after the July 14th fall.
A company was hired to find the reson for the leakage.
10 cm down in the roof the cause of the leakage was found,
another meteorite!
Here is another article.
As it is at this point (there has been 3 versions in the last
two hours), in the second picture the caption says that it melted
through the roof covering! And looking at the picture it
actually looks like it did! Pretty amazing..
The third picture is not of this case,
List,
Just shown on NRK news today.
A man in Rygge, Norway was 2 meters from being hit by meteorite on Friday.
The recovered pieces was just shown on the news. Seems to be less than 500 g.
But probabbly many other pieces near by.
The meteorite hit a piece of corrugated iron.
This DO seems real,
List,
Here are some images photographed off the TV-screen
on this story from NRK.
Sorry about the quality. I'm sure the story will be covered with
good photos quite soon now. (My images are large!)
http://home.online.no/~bsoerhei/astro/meteor/060714
The man was inside and first heard a rumbling
List,
A better image here:
http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article1389622.ece
Bjørn Sørheim,
in Norway
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More good images a story around the fall:
http://www.astro.uio.no/ita/nyheter/meteoritt_0706/meteoritt_0706.html
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Hello,
I think you mean 380 tons TNT,
not 380 kilotons, right!?
Hiroshima was about 20 ktons TNT,
so your figure is approaching almost a
half Megaton TNT, that's awsome!
Else, I absolutly agree on what is the point of your article,
I think the first incident spawned the last, yes. That was
what
Hello List,
Here is also the local province TV news for Rogaland,
that claim this is most probably a meteorite!
First story in news there today.
This is made by the national public TV of Norway - NRK,
the no. 1 station in Norway.
It was also very similarly conveyed on TV2, the biggest comercial
Hello List,
Certainly share your doubts about this one.
Could be a very earthly plutonic rock, e.g. 'mangerite' which is
common in places in Norway...?
Here is a link to the local astronomy society with some good close-up
pictures:
http://www.ux.his.no/saf/
Bjørn Sørheim,
in Norway
List,
I have tried getting more exact information on this fall.
In Norway any more exact info has not come out in the last days as far
as I know. Partly this is because the first sensational rush has died down,
and there is no reason to believe a Hiroshima explosion or anything
aproximating
that
with many witnesses to sound, there's a good chance you are
also near any possible fall zone.
Chris
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In this article(norwegian)
http://www.framtidinord.no/nyheter/article45150.ece
it says in the heading (translated):
** A [rock] slide no meteorite. **
(This story is also on the front page of www.framtidinord.no at the moment).
The location has been know to [many] locals since a month back.
At 04:54 13.06.2006, you wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:52:07 -0700, you wrote:
wonder just how he picked the 12 kilo number. It is clear that a meteorite
fell somewhere in the north of Norway, but that is about the extent of it
I'm not even sure if that much is established. I can't read Norse
Hello List,
I think the information in this article is greatly exaggerated.
But the astronomer Mr. K.J. Røed Ødegaard is a bit to blame
for jumping to conclusions again it seems...
Another astronomer based much closer at The Northern Light
Observatorium in Tromsø, Mr. Truls Lynne Hansen says to
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