Wow! It barely missed me!

rthorvald · Post #1by **rthorvald** » 09.06.2006, 19:48

We??ve had a huge meteorite impact in nothern Norway today. Not much information on it on the net yet - they have still not found it - but it aspires to be the biggest one to hit the country in recorded history. Some astronomy-interested journalist compared it to "one hiroshima bomb" in the tabloids... (Though the most powerful event was that someone who lived nearby got their curtains blown into the room by the blast. Well, that is of course more than one wants...)

- rthorvald :-)

Post #2by **ElChristou** » 09.06.2006, 20:07

uch... what about a meteor hunt for your holidays? :wink:

Dollan · Post #3by **Dollan** » 09.06.2006, 20:15

That news absolutely matches the expressio on your avatar!

So this thing hit the ground?!

Dollan · Post #4by **Dollan** » 09.06.2006, 20:18

Found this article: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local ... 346411.ece

I'm not certain if the accompanying photo is of the thing or not; likely it's a stock image.

EDIT: I should have read closer. Looks like it IS an image of the thing.

rthorvald · Post #5by **rthorvald** » 09.06.2006, 20:29

Dollan wrote: I should have read closer. Looks like it IS an image of the thing.

Yes, it is. Taken by a farmer. But they are still out searching for the rock... Elchristou, sorry, it is a bit far to walk: from Oslo to Troms is about the same distance as from Oslo to Rome... ;-)

- rthorvald

Hunter Parasite · Post #6by **Hunter Parasite** » 09.06.2006, 22:58

Wow, thats awesome! If only something that is remotely as exciting happend over here in the US!

PlutonianEmpire · Post #7by **PlutonianEmpire** » 10.06.2006, 00:24

EEK! ALIEN INVASIONS! j/k :lol:

Malenfant · Post #8by **Malenfant** » 10.06.2006, 01:17

Sweet! 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?

Hunter Parasite · Post #9by **Hunter Parasite** » 10.06.2006, 15:23

i bet it's a UFO and the norwiegen government will cover it up. How do you spell norwiegen?

rthorvald · Post #10by **rthorvald** » 10.06.2006, 16:23

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

Rassilon · Post #11by **Rassilon** » 10.06.2006, 19:00

Well your still with us so thats good... I would be absolutely lost without your contributions Runar...