Posted on 06/09/2006 8:47:00 AM PDT by mwilli20
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. ...
"I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash.
"I heard the bang seven minutes later. It sounded like when you set off a solid charge of dynamite a kilometer (0.62 miles) away," Bruvold said. ...
If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb. Of course the meteorite is not radioactive, but in explosive force we may be able to compare it to the (atomic) bomb," Røed Ødegaard said.
(Excerpt) Read more at aftenposten.no ...
LOL!! That's okay. I can't do math on Fridays either! ;o)
Smoke trail. Not from fire exactly, but a trail of luminous dust perhaps still incandescent or at least getting some sunlight. Could be a condensation trail when the meteor gets very low, under ten miles altitude.
No, what's that? ;-)
Sorry, I should have calculated first, 7 minutes is only about 90 miles, which is quite possible.
At the standard (sea level) 761 miles per hour, sound travels about 12.68 miles per minute. So if it was heard 7 minutes later then it was about 88.78 miles away. Also, I'm sure he was approximating the time.
He would have felt the ground waves sooner.
I bet Joe Dirt can find it.
No. 7*60 = 420 seconds. sound travels 1100 ft/sec so 420*1100 = 462000 feet. 5280 feet in a mile so 462000/5280 = 87.5 miles.
Bushfault
You need to get together with Laz for a 'sanitized' explanation of this phenomenon.
I'm wondering at the source ... is it too late for this to have been a fragment from the "string of pearls" comet that broke up, passing earth in mid-May? What was the name, Schwassman Wachtman or something like that?
no, around 87.5MPH
speed of sound being approx.750 mph at sea level.
that first MPH should be Miles.
Jesus said, "Have you then discovered the beginning so that you inquire about the end? For where the begining is, there shall be the end." --The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
It's been a couple of weeks. That is probably enough to put the orbit of that comet, debris trail and all, millions of miles away from our current position.
I see, the atmospheric explosion can be compared to Hiroshima... makes sense.
Well the farmer and the bucket comment made me chuckle anyway.
Since it burned up in the atmosphere, then there was no damage on the Earth. Obviously, it was not large enough to remain intact and burned up prior to hitting the ground.
Since it did not hit the ground and create a new crater, how can the nonexplosive force be compared to an atomic bomb?
"12 miles a minute, give or take."
That's about what I came up with, 12.5 miles per minute, which would place the impact 87.5 miles away, assuming the impact was nearly simultaneous with the sighting(s). It may not have been, since there were also reports that it took several seconds to cross the sky overhead.
The DUmmies had alleged such was to happen (and George Bush wasn't doing a thing about it), their source being a former airport manager from France.
DUmmie prognostications are confusing; if such had happened, that would have meant no war with Iran on June 7.....and as we all know, something else happened on June 7, deeply saddening the DUmmies.
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