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Record Meteorite Hits Norway

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jun 9 2006, 02:58 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	To quote: As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok. This article includes a photograph of the meteor as it came streaking in: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece Norwegian version contains a seismograph recording of the impact: http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article1345940.ece -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jun 11 2006, 03:18 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Looks like North America got its own fireball: http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsu...thsuperior_news http://winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2006/...618758-sun.html They may be coming from this meteor shower: http://spaceweather.com/meteors/arietids/arietids.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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ljk4-1 Record Meteorite Hits Norway Jun 9 2006, 02:58 PM

paxdan very very interesting. The article says it hit a m... Jun 9 2006, 03:01 PM

centsworth_II Record meteor aside, the most amazing part for me ... Jun 9 2006, 03:07 PM

helvick QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Jun 9 2006, 04:07 ... Jun 9 2006, 04:28 PM

Myran Yes we got 'daylight' around the clock now... Jun 9 2006, 04:49 PM

Michael Capobianco QUOTE (Myran @ Jun 9 2006, 12:49 PM) Yes ... Jun 9 2006, 05:43 PM

ljk4-1 Looks like North America got its own fireball: ht... Jun 11 2006, 03:18 PM

DonPMitchell QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 11 2006, 08:18 A... Jun 11 2006, 04:36 PM

Ames Saturday 3rd June - large fireball seen above Bris... Jun 11 2006, 10:24 PM

ljk4-1 The Arietid meteor shower is said to come from the... Jun 12 2006, 12:12 AM

DonPMitchell QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 11 2006, 05:12 P... Jun 12 2006, 03:05 AM

Tesheiner Just found this article titled "Here's wh... Jun 15 2006, 02:58 PM

stewjack QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jun 15 2006, 10:58 AM)... Jun 15 2006, 07:52 PM

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