[meteorite-list] Holy crap-- can anyone confirm this? Any vikings on the list?

From: meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 10 12:39:46 2006
Message-ID: <060920061721.14337.4489AE0D000BD6090000380122007601809D0A9B029A080A9B079D010A9B0A03_at_comcast.net>

That is one huge deserted area, lots of empty forest for a meteorite to be lost in. I will wait till pieces are reported, then damn skippy, I will be there.
Otherwise, see all my European friends in Ensisheim in a week!
Mike Farmer
PS, we only found on Glorieta yesterday, we got caught up on top of a mountain during a huge thunderstorm and were soaked to the bone for about 2 hours, hiding from lightning bolts, and then slip-sliding back down the mountain in clay mud! And people wonder why Glorieta costs so much!

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From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_charter.net>
> http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece
>
> Record meteorite hit Norway
> 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.
>
> A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology
> research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances
> at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok.
>
> Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his
> mare Virika was about to foal for the first time.
>
> "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.
>
> Astronomers were excited by the news.
>
> "There were ground tremors, a house shook and a curtain was blown into the
> house," Norway's best known astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told
> Aftenposten.no.
>
> Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred
> kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The
> meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms.
>
> "This is simply exceptional. I cannot imagine that we have had such a powerful
> meteorite impact in Norway in modern times. 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.
>
> The astronomer believes the meteorite was a giant rock and probably the largest
> known to have struck Norway.
>
> "The record was the Alta meteorite that landed in 1904. That one was 90 kilos
> (198 lbs) but we think the meteorite that landed Wednesday was considerably
> larger," Røed Ødegaard said, and urged members of the public who saw the object
> or may have found remnants to contact the Institute of Astrophysics.
>
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