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[ljk4-1]

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

[ljk4-1]

The Arietid meteor shower is said to come from the planetoid Icarus,
which gets closer to the Sun than Mercury and then moves out beyond
Mars' orbit in its continuous celestial journey.

I wonder if all that heating and cooling is causing the space rock to
crack and break apart, spreading pieces of itself into the Sol system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_%28asteroid%29

http://members.fortunecity.com/wallpapers2...x768/Icarus.jpg

http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/html_pix/rbicarus.html

I also recall a plan in the 1960s to put instruments inside Icarus that would
study the Sun as it approached perihelion, with everything but what had to
be on the planetoid's surface protected by its rocky hide. Still sounds
plausible to me.