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 ...
How can the farmer hear the sound seven minutes later??? Was the sound carried over to him by another farmer in a bucket?
If the blast was the size of Hiroshima, shouldn't there by a sizeable crater somewhere? There go scientists exaggerating again...
have you heard of the speed of sound?
7 minutes later, though? That would indicate he was something like 2500 miles away, no?
Well sonny, that would be anywhere you can say, "What the Hell was that?"
I can't have heard of it. Your voice hasn't gotten here yet.
I find it hard to believe there has been nothing on the MSM about this.
Fire biler involvert i en større trafikkulykke på E6M
Was Norwegian invented by Monte Python?
Looks like the night sky in Norway is like the night sky in Alaska. That is, this time of year there isn't a night sky. The meteor would have been very bright to be seen in a twilight sky.
Must have had Contrails.
Huh? The speed of sound is only ~720mph at sea level (would travel about 85 miles in 7 minutes).
They just haven't found a way to blame BUSH for it yet!...............
12 miles a minute, give or take.
More like 420 miles away--a long ways but loud sounds can be heard a long ways away. It was said that the sound of Krakatoa (sp) was heard in San Francisco.
A bit less than 90 miles.
Speed of sound is (about) 1100 fps.
7 minutes X 60 X 1100 /5280
Whoops never mind... hours, minutes, what's the difference? =)
"Secretary Rumsfeld, I have some bad news. The Rods of God test went a little off -- it seems that we hit Norway. People saw it, but it's being attributed to a meteor. We've shifted the satellite to a new position, so we think we're OK and have good deniability. We'll work on targetting algorithm before the next test."
The object discombiferated as it entered further and further into the earth's atmosphere and went poof,, maybe a similar tho much smaller example of what happened at Tunguska.
probably a translation/typo
seven minutes was probably several minutes.
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