Record meteorite hit Norway (caught on camera too)

Aftenposten (Norway) ^ | 06/09/2006 | Nina Lødemel/Jonathan Tisdall

[LIConFem]

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

[RightWhale]

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.

[mwilli20]

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.

[MarineBrat]

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.

[FearlessFreep]

I bet Joe Dirt can find it.

[from occupied ga]

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.

[Republicus2001]

Bushfault

[MHGinTN]

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

[RegulatorCountry]

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?

[Vaquero]

no, around 87.5MPH

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

[Vaquero]

that first MPH should be Miles.

[onedoug]

"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

[RightWhale]

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.

[Slicksadick]

[mwilli20]

and further into the earth's atmosphere and went poof

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

[FearlessFreep]

[CJ Wolf]

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

[Hunble]

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?

[RegulatorCountry]

"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.

[franksolich]

Ping for the Norway ping list.



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.