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Title: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: blobrana on June 09, 2006, 03:01:13 PM

Hum,

Northern Norway was hit with an meteorite impact comparable to the atomic bomb on Wednesday, 7th June, 2006.
For several seconds, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark saw a ball of fire crossing the sky.
A few minutes later an impact was heard and geophysics and seismology stations in Karasjok registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m.
The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms, and was probably the largest known to have struck Norway.

IMAGE (http://static.flickr.com/78/163633346_80fa5f779e_o.jpg)(84kb, 560 x 401)
Latitude 69.498379° Longitude 21.428999°

Source (http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article1345940.ece)
English (http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece)

Title: Re: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: Dagon on June 16, 2006, 02:21:29 AM

And here is a video of the impact taken from a satelite.
(http://www.spaceweather3.com/swpod2006/14jun06/movie450.gif)


Kidding... that's not Norway, it's Mare Nubium :P

Title: Re: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: Dandy on June 20, 2006, 07:34:14 AM

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blobrana wrote:
Hum,

Northern Norway was hit with an meteorite impact comparable to the atomic bomb on Wednesday, 7th June, 2006.
...IMAGE (http://static.flickr.com/78/163633346_80fa5f779e_o.jpg)(84kb, 560 x 401)
Latitude 69.498379° Longitude 21.428999°
...

Nice image.
But somehow I fail to recognise the impact site on it.
Could you please mark the place on your image?
Or do you have an additional close-up?

Title: Re: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: blobrana on June 20, 2006, 11:10:42 AM

Hum,
as yet there has been no crater found.
And the original estimates have been questioned (and revised) by a few people.
The impact search area was shifted further north after analysis of data recorded by a few seismic stations.

Why haven`t you been following my blog (http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=150651&action=viewTopic&commentID=7295449&topicPage=)?

Title: Re: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: T_Bone on June 26, 2006, 09:02:25 PM

Slartibartfast is going to be pissed.

Title: Re: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: blobrana on June 27, 2006, 01:10:54 AM

Hum,
The mice were applying a security update?

Title: Re: Norway hit by meteor
Post by: Hyperspeed on July 11, 2006, 02:58:00 AM

If only it had landed a couple of thousand miles to the West it might have hit Aberdeen. What a wasted opportunity by mother nature.

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