Possible meteorimpact in Norway

Just read the online papers, and of them reports that a huge fireball was seen over parts of Norway around midnight. No photos in yet.

www.vg.no...

Translated article:

AP) in several parts of the country observed a fireball that was moving at high speed across the sky. It can be turned into Gudbrandsdalen.

Have photos or videos? Tip AP via email to [email protected] or MMS to 2200

VG has received numerous inquiries from several places in the country, where people have seen the luminous object that moved at tremendous speed around midnight.

- We have received messages from Smøla in the north to Vågå and Lom in the south, so it seems that the price has been the southeast. What it is we have no idea. We have also talked with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute who do not know about any particular light phenomena. But only in Gudbrandsdalen that it is heard bang, said rescue leader Erik Willassen by the Rescue Coordination Centre for southern Norway to the AP on Wednesday morning.

- Powerful boom

The police have received numerous phone. Among other things, in Gudbrandsdalen. Several people have also reported a loud bang.

- People have seen a fireball that went in a tremendous speed, it was blue in front and behind the orange red. One of them had seen it said that it lit up the whole valley. After the object disappeared westward from Dovreskogen. He had not heard any rumblings, but after we have received several calls from people who have heard just that, says operations manager Arvid Røste by Gudbrandsdalslågen police.

- We have been in contact with the Rescue Coordination Centre and they have the same phones as us. It seems as if it came in from the northwest. We know no more, except that it can be both a meteorite or satellite.

- We have fortunately not received notification of the impact site, and it suggests both that there may have turned down in the mountains, says operations manager.

Since it is not received by several observations of fireballs.

The boom does not mean that something has crashed, it may as well be something that has gone through the sound barrier.

Cud it be the German Roentgen satellite that's supposed to touchdown this week? Though it was planned for 22nd/23rd....

www.abovetopsecret.com...

or could it be asteroid 2009 tm8 that was suppose to miss by 0.0023au?just a thought.

Originally posted by Gromle
The boom does not mean that something has crashed, it may as well be something that has gone through the sound barrier.

Exactly!

And to add to that, it suggests that something survived atmospheric entry, making it low enough in the atmosphere to produce a sonic boom. Sonic booms are only produced if would-be meteorites make it down to below 50 km above sea level, where there is enough air for sound waves (a "boom") to propagate down to people on the ground.

Please note that it's not unusual for a big meteor/fireball to make a boom, but this is usually heard some time after the meteor is seen since most fireballs that drop meteorites are rapidly slowed down by our atmosphere and when they slow down enough they cease producing light and continue to the ground unseen, although still fast enough to break the sound barrier, at least initially.

It's also common for people to think they have seen the fireball hit the ground, but that is only because people invariably mis-estimate the distance of the meteor, which can appear to be much closer and lower than it actually is due to it's brightness and peoples propensity to equate bright and big with being close. If you research similar cases in past history, this "little" fact that is often totally ignored here on ATS in such cases, is glaringly obvious.

If anyone would like links that support my statements, please ask and I will be more than happy to oblige.