Potential meteorite strike in Northern Norway 06/09/2006

[centrigma]

Norwegian new reports that a bright fireball was observed and photographed at 2:13 AM June 9th 2006 over Lyngseidet, Troms, Norway and then 7 minuets later a loud explosion was heard and felt. At about the ARCES earthquake monitoring system registered an earthquake with local magnitude 2.9 north of Karasjok in Finmark (http://www.norsar.no/NDC/stations/ARC/), Norway. (The distance between those two locations is about 130 miles/ about 210 KM). Take a look at the picture in this link http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article1345940.ece it was taken at about 2:13 AM local time at Lyngseidet, Troms, Norway (now I know it looks like day time, but remember that it is midsummer and they have the midnight sun in Northern Norway now). Some more information (sorry, but it is in Norwegian at this time) can be found at http://www.astro.uio.no/ita/nyheter/ildkule06/ildkule06.html. Now towards the bottom of this page you will find a dark night time picture of another fireball from 1998 and they say that today’s meteorite was 1000 brighter. For ARCES info in English look here http://www.norsar.no/NDC/stations/ARC/<br />

 

[harmonicaman]

Can't wait to hear more about this!<br /><br />Did sizable pieces actually make it to the ground or did it vaporize in the atmosphere like the Tunguska event?<br /><br />Although the article states that it was a "Rock", I think there's also the possibility that it may have been iron or even an icy object (such as a small comet). Ground samples will need to be gathered to confirm its composition.

 

[robnissen]

It seems to me becaue there was a small earthquake, something large must have hit the ground.

 

[CalliArcale]

We now have two threads on this topic. Since silyene's has slightly more info (having been posted a little bit later), I think I'll lock this one in favor of that one. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>