[meteorite-list] Another Meteor Explosion Recorded Over Norway

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jul 14 12:30:58 2006
Message-ID: <200607141628.JAA12391_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1388515.ece

Meteor explosion recorded over Oslo Fjord area
Aftenpoften
July 14, 2006

Astronomers were fending off scores of calls on Friday from Norwegians
who reported hearing what experts are calling a meteor explosion over
southeast Norway, somewhere over the Oslo Fjord area.

NORSAR, in Kjeller, has registered a signal from the explosion.
Officials at NORSAR and at the University of Oslo said there likely are
remnants of the meteor lying on the ground between Gardermoen to the
northeast of Oslo and Askim to the southeast.

"I urge people to search for particles that may have fallen to earth,"
astronomer Knut J?rgen R?ed ?degaard told Aftenposten.no. He said the
stones would be black and magnetic.

Seismologist Johannes Schweitzer was on duty at NORSAR Friday morning,
when the meteor is believed to have exploded around 10:15am.

He said he got a signal from one of NORSAR's stations about 10 minutes
after the explosion. "That correlates to information we have had from
astronomers," he said. He thinks the meteor explosion was probably
somewhat less forceful than the one recorded at NORSAR stations on June
7 in northern Norway.

Calls streamed in all day from Str?mstad, Sweden in the south to
Notodden and Jessheim in the north, placed by people who heard the
explosion or saw a flash streaking through the bright blue sky Friday
morning.

It was said to have been travelling in a north, northwest direction.

"This sounds extremely exciting," said astronomer Kaare Aksnes of the
astro-physics institute at the University of Oslo.

He received a call from Stein Kjetil Overrein in Halden, near the
Swedish border, who reported seeing a flash hurtling through the sky,
and hearing an explosion minutes later. After calling the police, he
called Aksnes.

E-mailed reports of the incident were also streaming in to the
university from all over the Oslo area.

It's at least the second meteor incident in Norway in recent weeks. A
meteorite was photographed streaking through the light night sky east of
Troms? on June 7, and last week a resident of Stavanger reported finding
a meteorite in his yard. The latter report, however, hasn't been
confirmed and may have been a hoax.
Received on Fri 14 Jul 2006 12:28:28 PM PDT