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Record meteorite hit Norway (caught on camera too)
Aftenposten (Norway) ^ | 06/09/2006 | Nina Lødemel/Jonathan Tisdall

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: artbell; callingartbell; cometp73; endoftheworld; fragments; meteorite; norway
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To: thoughtomator

LOL!! That's okay. I can't do math on Fridays either! ;o)


21 posted on 06/09/2006 8:56:21 AM PDT by LIConFem (It is by will alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: FearlessFreep

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.


22 posted on 06/09/2006 8:56:46 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: CJ Wolf
have you heard of the speed of sound?

No, what's that? ;-)

Sorry, I should have calculated first, 7 minutes is only about 90 miles, which is quite possible.

23 posted on 06/09/2006 8:57:16 AM PDT by mwilli20
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To: mwilli20

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.


24 posted on 06/09/2006 8:58:15 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.)
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To: mwilli20

I bet Joe Dirt can find it.


25 posted on 06/09/2006 8:59:05 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (Excuse me. But are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?)
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To: thoughtomator
That would indicate he was something like 2500 miles away, no?

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.

26 posted on 06/09/2006 8:59:18 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: mwilli20

Bushfault


27 posted on 06/09/2006 9:00:40 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: NormsRevenge; Lazamataz

You need to get together with Laz for a 'sanitized' explanation of this phenomenon.


28 posted on 06/09/2006 9:01:35 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: mwilli20

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?


29 posted on 06/09/2006 9:01:38 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: thoughtomator

no, around 87.5MPH

speed of sound being approx.750 mph at sea level.


30 posted on 06/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

that first MPH should be Miles.


31 posted on 06/09/2006 9:02:50 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: mwilli20
"The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be."

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

32 posted on 06/09/2006 9:03:18 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: RegulatorCountry

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.


33 posted on 06/09/2006 9:04:06 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: FearlessFreep

34 posted on 06/09/2006 9:04:21 AM PDT by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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To: NormsRevenge
and further into the earth's atmosphere and went poof

I see, the atmospheric explosion can be compared to Hiroshima... makes sense.

35 posted on 06/09/2006 9:05:28 AM PDT by mwilli20
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To: Slicksadick
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36 posted on 06/09/2006 9:06:10 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (Excuse me. But are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?)
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To: mwilli20

Well the farmer and the bucket comment made me chuckle anyway.


37 posted on 06/09/2006 9:06:29 AM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: mwilli20
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.

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?

38 posted on 06/09/2006 9:07:14 AM PDT by Hunble
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To: RightWhale

"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.


39 posted on 06/09/2006 9:07:28 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Charles Henrickson; 1234; 68 grunt; Amityschild; Allosaurs_r_us; beckysueb; Born Conservative; ...
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One wonders if this was the fragments of the giant comet that was supposed to strike on May 26, ending all life on earth as we know it.

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.

40 posted on 06/09/2006 9:07:30 AM PDT by franksolich (wolkenkuckucksheim)
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