METEORITE: This shining object was visible over great parts of North Troms and Finnmark Tuesday night.
PHOTO: Peter Bruvold
Seven minutes later it crashed into North Troms
OLE-THOMAS STEIRO ANDERSEN
Friday 9th of June, 10:30am
Updated 03:47am
(Dagbladet.no): Reisadalen in North Troms was Tuesday night hit by an astronomic sensation. Short after 02:00am several Tromsø citizens observed heavy light flicker from an object on the night sky. The meteorite moved over the sky and left a trail of smoke before it hit a high barren plateau in Reisadalen in North Troms.
- I saw a flash like the one in a camera, but much more powerful. The object went in a line and down in the horizon, says farmer Peter Bruvold to Dagbladet.no. He guesses that there went about seven minutes before the enormous blast could be heard all over the area.
GROUND ZERO: The map shows the direction of the sound signals observed by NORSAR's station in Karasjok. Illustration: NORSAR
It was a reasonable powerful blast. The earth shook and the curtains waved. My first thought was that it must have been a dynamite explosion nearby. When I heard the sound of falling stones, I thought it was a avalanche of stones, says Wenche Offerdal to the newspaper Nordlys. She is one of the many Troms citizens who had their houses shaken Tuesday night.
Big pieces of stone have been shaken out of the cliff on the presumed ground zero. Many of the surrounding trees broke right off.
- International attention
The earthquake station in Karasjok registered both seismic and sonic waves from the crash. It is yet to early to say anything about the meteorites dimensions, but from the readings made so far astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard at Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics thinks that the stone could have weighted up to a ton. In that case it is over 10 times as big as the biggest meteorite ever observed in Norway. The old record is from 1904, when a 90 kilo meteorite hit Finnmark.
- This is extremely exciting. You can imagine something this good, but when it happens it is unbelievable says Røed Ødegaard to Dagbladet.no.
- If it is as big as I think it can be, it will not last long before the world's press comes to North-Troms. This will create attention internationally, says Ødegaard.
There has been found 13 meteorites in Norway, last time in Gloppen municipality in Nordfjord in 2001. A meteorite contains stone or nickel and enters the earth's atmosphere with a speed of 100,000 km/h. The stone gets heated by air resistance, and when the surface vapourises, it gets visible as a powerful flashes.
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METEORITE: This shining object was visible over great parts of North Troms and Finnmark Tuesday night.
PHOTO: Peter Bruvold
Seven minutes later it crashed into North Troms
OLE-THOMAS STEIRO ANDERSEN Friday 9th of June, 10:30am
Updated 03:47am
(Dagbladet.no): Reisadalen in North Troms was Tuesday night hit by an astronomic sensation. Short after 02:00am several Tromsø citizens observed heavy light flicker from an object on the night sky. The meteorite moved over the sky and left a trail of smoke before it hit a high barren plateau in Reisadalen in North Troms.
- I saw a flash like the one in a camera, but much more powerful. The object went in a line and down in the horizon, says farmer Peter Bruvold to Dagbladet.no. He guesses that there went about seven minutes before the enormous blast could be heard all over the area.
GROUND ZERO: The map shows the direction of the sound signals observed by NORSAR's station in Karasjok.
Illustration: NORSAR
It was a reasonable powerful blast. The earth shook and the curtains waved. My first thought was that it must have been a dynamite explosion nearby. When I heard the sound of falling stones, I thought it was a avalanche of stones, says Wenche Offerdal to the newspaper Nordlys . She is one of the many Troms citizens who had their houses shaken Tuesday night.
Big pieces of stone have been shaken out of the cliff on the presumed ground zero. Many of the surrounding trees broke right off.
- International attention
The earthquake station in Karasjok registered both seismic and sonic waves from the crash. It is yet to early to say anything about the meteorites dimensions, but from the readings made so far astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard at Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics thinks that the stone could have weighted up to a ton. In that case it is over 10 times as big as the biggest meteorite ever observed in Norway. The old record is from 1904, when a 90 kilo meteorite hit Finnmark.
- This is extremely exciting. You can imagine something this good, but when it happens it is unbelievable says Røed Ødegaard to Dagbladet.no.
- If it is as big as I think it can be, it will not last long before the world's press comes to North-Troms. This will create attention internationally, says Ødegaard.
There has been found 13 meteorites in Norway, last time in Gloppen municipality in Nordfjord in 2001. A meteorite contains stone or nickel and enters the earth's atmosphere with a speed of 100,000 km/h. The stone gets heated by air resistance, and when the surface vapourises, it gets visible as a powerful flashes.