[meteorite-list] Norway Meteorite Impact Site Believed to be Found

From: Bjorn Sorheim <astrogeo_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jun 13 14:47:03 2006
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20060613202747.044b09d8_at_pop.online.no>

At 04:54 13.06.2006, you wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:52:07 -0700, you wrote:
> >wonder just how he picked the 12 kilo number. It is clear that a meteorite
> >fell somewhere in the north of Norway, but that is about the extent of it
>
>I'm not even sure if that much is established. I can't read Norse (or
>whatever
>language this page is in) and I'm no seismologist, but it looks like this
>reading is of two different frequences recorded at one station, not two
>stations
>(as some have mentioned).

Please wake up:
It's *three* stations:
  - Karasjok in Finmark, Norway east of Troms.
  - Kiruna in north Sweden, south(west) of Troms
  - Lule? in north Sweden, south(east) of Troms


>And it looks like the 2-4 hertz event took place over
>just a few seconds, but the 6-10 hertz event around 2 1/2 minutes and started
>before the shorter frequency event. That wouldn't make much sense for a
>meteorite hit, I woud think. Could it be that someone saw a bright fireball,
>then coincidentally there was a landslide or small quake or something, and
>that
>the two events aren't related?
>
>I"m sure that "siesmiske signaler" has to mean the reading from the
>seismograph

  - means 'seimic signals'

>and the "Norsk lokal tid" must mean "Norse local time",

- correct!

>but what the heck does
>"lavfrekvent lydsignal" mean?

lowfrequence sound signal


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>
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Received on Tue 13 Jun 2006 02:32:37 PM PDT