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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:38 PM
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Record meteorite hit Norway... Norway was hit with an impact!!!
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 06:55 PM by Rainscents
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.

Peter Bruvold witnessed the meteorite streaking across the night sky.

PHOTO: PETER BRUVOLD

The map shows the meteorite's direction of fall (the arrow) and the possible impact area over Troms and Finnmark counties.

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.

More... :scared: :scared: :scared:
Here is link to huge hole (PIC)!!! HOLY FUCK!!!
http://www.freedomcrowsnest.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=495359#495359
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:42 PM
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1. Wow, interesting news!
I hope no-one's hurt.

PB
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:42 PM
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2. Terra from Outer Space!
Quick! We have to invade someone now- before it's TOO LATE.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:43 PM
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5. Let's get them!!!
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:45 PM
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6. Ack ack!
Ack ack... ACK.

Oh, yeah- Ack.

:rofl:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:00 PM
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15. These are Scandanavian Martians.
I believe it's: Bork bork... BORK!
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:46 PM
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8. BWAHAHAHA!!!
:rofl:
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:40 PM
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49. If I might first
give my condolences to anyone who suffered injuries/death/terror...truly! That said...what a bunch of sick FVKS we are! I love us so much!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:42 PM
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3. Is it a terrorist meteorite?
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:21 PM
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39. So when are the Martian War machines gonna pop out?
I'm just waiting for them to attack Ann Coulter }(
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:43 PM
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4. See, no matter what you do something is going to kill you eventually. n/t
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:46 PM
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7. Does Norway allow gay marriage?
Because, if they do, this is just the beginning of what's going to happen to them.

(Is a "sardonic" emoticon really called for here?)
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:48 PM
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9. Hork! Hork! Hork!
Norwegian, Swedish. It's all in the family. Have something special in a cook'n pouch for dinner tonight.
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Southsideirish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:52 PM
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10. Art Bell was just talking about the damage a "deep impact" could cause
last night.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:03 PM
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19. You mean that nut is still alive?
????
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:52 PM
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11. Where's the link to the pic of the hole?
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:53 PM
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12. Just what I was wondering
Would love to see that pic!
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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:55 PM
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53. delete
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 11:01 PM by genieroze
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:54 PM
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13. I posted link on the bottom...
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 06:56 PM by Rainscents
You have to go to center of the page and you'll see the pic. Someone at the blog posted.

Sorry, I thought, I posted the link... I corrected!!! Link is up now.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:04 PM
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21. Not a very impressive atom bomb. . .


This is what those on the discussion board claim is the impact site.

Kind of odd, wouldn't you say, that there would be plants already in the zone?
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:06 PM
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23. There's another at the bottom! I wasn't talking about this one.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:08 PM
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26. That's the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. . .
It hit about 49,000 years ago, so it's just outside the range of the rules for DU's LBN.
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catzies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:49 PM
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43. LOL, and that pic is the first one to come up in a GIS
n/t
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:09 PM
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27. They've been changing the article webpage
When I first looked at it, there were two pictures, now there's only one.
They are probably getting lots of hits and trying to reduce bandwidth.
Here are links using the www.coralcdn.org cache:

Here's the article:
http://www.aftenposten.no.nyud.net:8080/english/local/article1346411.ece

Here's the impact photo from the blog:
http://www.nordlys.no.nyud.net:8080/multimedia/archive/00863/meteo3_863508g.jpg

Peter Bruvold witnessed the meteorite streaking across the night sky.
PHOTO: PETER BRUVOLD
http://cache.aftenposten.no.nyud.net:8080/multimedia/archive/00410/_A-Meteoritt_6sek_j_410790h.jpg

The map shows the meteorite's direction of fall (the arrow) and the possible impact area over Troms and Finnmark counties.
http://cache.aftenposten.no.nyud.net:8080/multimedia/archive/00410/_meteoritt_jpg_410803h.jpg
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 06:57 PM
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14. And this wasn't in the newspapers...why?
I call bullshit.

Redstone
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:01 PM
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17. The impact is in the news...
Check out http://www.aftenposten.no/english/

Aftenposten is one of the major news outlets in Norway.

I am a little sceptical of the pic on the blog, though...Aftenposten doesn't have it, and the Aftenposten article said it hit a mountain...the pic on the blog doesn't look to be anywhere near a mountain.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:05 PM
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22. They've been drinking too much kvass, or whatever the hell it is
they drink there.

"The force of a Hiroshima-size atomic bomb?" I'd think that someone outside of Norway would have noticed that, and reported it.

Redstone
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:07 PM
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24. That's because the picture of a hole they show is. . .
the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. It hit about 49,000 years ago, so it's just outside the range of the rules for DU's LBN.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:13 PM
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29. I thought that pic looked familiar. Here's the real pic:
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:18 PM
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32. Thank you. Saw the photo and IMMEDIATELY knew we weren't talking
LBN. I grew up in Arizona. Every schoolkid in AZ knows that photo.
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:02 PM
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18. Did you know, we are not out of the wood with W-P73 comet fragments?
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 07:16 PM by Rainscents
W-P73 passed by, however, it left huge trails of fragments and we are passing through it right now. We won't be out of danger until at least June 15th.
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 01:14 AM
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55. That's not good, do you know if this is the one that is scheduled...
...to return in 2029? Do they know it's return schedule, because that close of an encounter usually means a hit when it returns.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:23 PM
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33. Good question - no other news sources are covering this
.
.
.

This should be MAJOR news

and our constant vigil on what's going on in outer space should have given us some warning

Bullshit alert a good idea on this one
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:00 PM
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16. Damn....that's one big hole. Also cool link on there about
stuff going on in Norway. Norway dumped all Wal-Mart's stock because it didn't meet Norway's ethical standards....TOO COOL!
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:04 PM
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20. I love this web site!!! I go over there at least once a day!
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:07 PM
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25. ahhh, I believe the pic you linked is of Meteor Crater in Arizona
NOT today's event
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:11 PM
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28. I believe, you're right!
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:15 PM
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30. Well....it's still a big hole wherever it is : )
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:16 PM
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31. Amazes me, no one questioned the road that leads to the edge. . .
of the hole, or the fact that Norway in the pic looks a lot like Northern Arizona.
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:27 PM
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34. I believe, the photo is from AZ.
After looking at the photo again.
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:36 PM
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36. It is - I recognized it right away.
It's a big deal out in AZ - huge attraction.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:35 PM
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35. That was some big ass shit. They are so lucky...hell the whole
world is lucky it didn't hit in a populated area.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:45 PM
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37. .
:rofl:
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:07 PM
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38. PEOPLE - that photo of the crater is in Arizona - don't you know that?
It's called "Meteor Crater" - NASA trained ther in the 60's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

Read all about it.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #38
51. Nobody ever reads the upthread posts
especially not if someone has disproved their contention in previous posts.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 05:04 PM
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60. And it was in that swell movie
Starman
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:29 PM
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40. I'm going to have to call B*llSh*t on this one. That looks like a Contrail
...from a Jet, and if you google this story, the only newswire that picked this up is UPI, which has zero credibility any more.

<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060609-050952-4406r>

If this was real, this would be all over the press.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:35 PM
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41. Agree. And that site is certainly NOT a credible source. nm
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:03 PM
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46. Aftenposten? N/T
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Pugee Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:32 PM
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48. The story is real, not sure about the pics.
It is listed on the Rsoe Havaria Emergency site. Look down to "cosmic event"

http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert.php?lang=eng
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:09 PM
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50. Neat sight! But it also shows that this happened Wednesday...
...So this shouldn't be in LBN, I would have been better to have posted it in Science, it would have cut down on the confusion (because it's not still in the news).
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 07:00 AM
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56. a contrail impacted the ground?
fascinating
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:46 PM
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42. Is Reisadalen north of the Arctic Circle?
??? All I can find is this caption under the picture of the Meteor Crater in Arizona.

Dette kan være et av nedslagene fra meteoritten som eksploderte over Reisadalen.

Everybody at DU swears that picture is from Arizona, so if Reisadalen is north of the Arctic Circle, and not in Arizona, this seems to be a very inaccurate report.
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:57 PM
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45. Translation
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 09:05 PM by FreeState
My very quick translation:

Dette kan være et av nedslagene fra meteoritten som eksploderte over Reisadalen.

This could be one of the 'Impact sites' from the Meteorite which exploded over Reisdalen


It appears they really do not know the exact location yet.

Aftenposten is one of Norway's most read papers. Its reliable.



EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms more on Reisadalen (its region not a town) and yes its above the Arctic Circle)
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 11:51 AM
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58. I've read Aftenposten before, and gotten reliable
information from them. Apparently, the key words are "could be." Perhaps they are showing what a meteorite strike could look like. I think they should have labeled it Arizona to avoid confusion.

Thanks for answering my question, and I hope we get an update on this so we can find out what actually happened.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 05:54 PM
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61. Big bucks in chunks of the stuff if one finds it.
In AZ, locations are closely held secrets when there are sightings. And outlaws still prey on meteorite hunters, watching until something is found then trying to take it from the finders. It's a rough and tumble hobby in the, sometimes still, wild west. ;)

It makes sense they wouldn't be too eager to publish the address of a hit, if they knew it.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:53 PM
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44. Bush proposes giant meteor shield to be built by Rockwell,
General Dynamics, and maintained by Halliburton.

At a cost of only $50 trillion!! (Cheap!)
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:09 PM
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47. It seems to be for real, but the Barringer pic was a joke.
Given the remote location of the event, the fact that we are just now hearing about it is not surprising. The photo of the meteor in the sky is actually quite similar to photos of a meteor that passed over the western US several years back. I'd like to see photos of the impact site, but I don't think they have *confirmed* pix yet.
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1620rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 11:10 PM
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54. The photo of the impact site (in Norway) looks ligit...see most...
large meteorites explode kind of high up before they impact the earth.Atmospheric presser and all that.(Thats why they only found fragments and pieces of the canyon diablo meteorite in Arizona). Anyway, why would scientist make up a story about a meteorite impact? Looks ligit to me, and quite fascinating too. They probably used the canyon diablo impact crater as an example photo of a very large impact site.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 08:43 AM
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57. we're talking about this photo of the impact site, right?

http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article2140014.ece

I seriously wonder if that's the actual impact site, or even damage from the meteorite exploding before impact. I'd expect a lot more damage from an impact that has the energy of an average nuclear bomb. I think that photo is a screw-up of some kind by "nordlys".

It looks like we don't have a photo of the impact site, but we do have a photo of the trail (definatly not a contrail)


http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece
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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:52 PM
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52. delete
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 11:03 PM by genieroze
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 04:21 PM
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59. Lots of Noctilucent cloud sighted recently too
Wonder if the two are related?

http://spaceweather.com/ Half way down page.

Are we going through more comet tail debris?
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