Hunter Parasite wrote:Wow, thats awesome! If only something that is remotely as exciting happend over here in the US!
Well, this is exactly what you
don??t want to see happening in your neighbourhood...
Malenfant wrote:I wonder how that compares to Tunguska, I hope they send someone out there to have a look soon! Can you post any followups you might find too?
It must have been a lot smaller than Tunguska, or we would have had more reports in the media - Troms is thinly populated, but still...
Here is a photo from a local newspaper of a mountainside that were smashed up by the hit:
http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article21 ... field=body
... Apart from that, there is still very little info, not even on the local astronomy sites. Just a lot of happy astronomers...
Some discussion on BAUT:
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php ... post758779
EDIT:
A new page about it from the Astrophysical Institute in Oslo:
http://www.astro.uio.no/ita/nyheter/ild ... ule06.html
... It??s in norwegian, but contains some graphics showing it??s direction and impact area, together with some links to various measurements (the seismics are from
http://www.norsar.no, but isn??t mentioned here).
Note that the photo on the bottom of the page is NOT of this meteorite, it??s one from 1998. The legend states that the one last wednesday was 1000 times brighter...
As for the Aftenposten photo (Dollan??s post), it was taken in the middle of the night, but the Sun is visible 24/7 up there now, so it was sort of drowned out by sunlight... Interviewees said the "fireball" was about the size of the moon, and was visible for about 7 seconds.
- rthorvald
