Norway hit by meteor

[blobrana]

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(84kb, 560 x 401)
Latitude 69.498379° Longitude 21.428999°

Source
English

[Dagon]

And here is a video of the impact taken from a satelite.



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

[Dandy]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,

Northern Norway was hit with an meteorite impact comparable to the atomic bomb on Wednesday, 7th June, 2006.
...IMAGE(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?

[blobrana]

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?

[T_Bone]

Slartibartfast is going to be pissed.

[blobrana]

Hum,
The mice were applying a security update?

[Hyperspeed]

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.

:inquisitive: