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Farmer Peter Bruvold, ready with his camera to capture the moment his female donkey gave birth, was fortunate to “catch” a meteorite in the bright summer sky – Photo: Aftenposten |
At 2:00 AM on June 7 (local time), a large meteorite flew over the skies of Troms and Finnmark in northern Norway and struck the ground with a force comparable to the bomb that fell on Hiroshima, Japan.
According to the newspaper Aftenposten, the meteorite appeared as a fireball and was clearly visible over a distance of hundreds of kilometers in the bright summer sky above the Arctic Circle.
Subsequently, the meteorite landed on an uninhabited mountainside in Reisadalen, northern Troms. The Karasjok Earth Physics Station (Norway) measured the impact of the meteorite upon landing. Many houses shook, and curtains were blown inward in nearby residential areas.
Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard, Norway’s leading astronomer, stated that he hopes to prove that this meteorite, which fell in Norway, is the largest yet, weighing approximately 1,000 kg, breaking the previous record held by the Alta meteorite, which weighed 90 kg in 1904.
He explained that the comparison of this meteorite to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima refers to its explosive force, not to any radioactive properties.
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