Comments on: Norwegian impact?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:01:42 +0000

And another one a month later

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1383090.ece

Its hardly safe to go our your front door now.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:45:45 +0000

I heard that the meteorite hit Norway on Wednesday, June 7 at 2 AM. That means it was still 6/6/06 in the Western Hemisphere. interesting.

By: Mountain Queen

Mountain Queen — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:01:17 +0000

I’m amazed at some of the statements of other websites. I found a conspiracy page where someone thought there had been a failure to communicate the danger of this meteor to the public. Huh? Including a comment that shocked me that they didn’t know it was daylight in Norway at 2 AM. A list of objects may not exist, but some of these folk would be shocked to know what misses our planet on a regular basis.

By: tribe.net: www.badastronomy.com

tribe.net: www.badastronomy.com — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:11:49 +0000

Re: Large Meteor Slams Northern Norway…

I learned of this a few days ago through the Bad Astronomer’s Blog:

http:/……

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:22:50 +0000

Oh we have some better than that, check out
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/onlyinnorway/

“Moose surfed on chunk of ice”
“Train rams into reindeer herd”
“Quarrel erupts over use of national costume in the skies”

or the best one
“Cows rampage in Norway”
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article353179.ece

Classics

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:01:15 +0000

I want to know more about the “Angry hare attacked dogsled” story down at the bottom of the Norwegian news page.

By: Stephen Mackenzie

Stephen Mackenzie — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:07:33 +0000

I’ve seen (many years ago) SOMETHING which I presumed to be a meteor, in daylight, crossing the sky from south to north, finally fading into the red and vanishing well before the horizon. No pictures I’m afraid, but it didn’t move that fast.

By: ruidh

ruidh — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:47:42 +0000

Could it be the Tritonian retaliation for us dropping a probe on their largest city? They’ve obviously targeted frozen Norway, one of the only places on this boiling planet cool enough to support life.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:40:54 +0000

Ham radio operators bounce radio signals off meteor trails… photographing them should be easy by comparison

By: ttt

ttt — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:48:34 +0000

I find it hard to believe that this was actually photographed. Should have been there and gone in a matter of seconds, no time to get a camera and a decent exposure.
Actually that image looks much more like an Iridium flare to me.
I mean, the event might still be for real… it was (was it?) captured by seismographs after all. But that photo…

By: Stuart Greig

Stuart Greig — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:25:25 +0000

A follow up in the norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, english pages website:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1348689.ece

Stuart

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:51:11 +0000

Here’s a view of the sky for this morning at 12:47 AM local time (when you were posting):

Looking Northeast
http://tinyurl.com/pendj

Looking Northwest (notice the COSMOS satellite high in the western sky of this one – it’s magnitude 1-ish probably moving east, but I didn’t run it for long enough to notice)
http://tinyurl.com/ozhhz

Looking Southwest
http://tinyurl.com/qlrc8

Looking Southeast
http://tinyurl.com/nzn9l

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:29:34 +0000

I’m not grossly far from NYC, so the view in my Starry Night would be pretty similar

By: prideri

prideri — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:17:26 +0000

folks, thanks alot. my sister said today it was probably jupiter. i’m in new york – not the best place to starwatch – but i always look up. get most of my fix from cosmos, nova, and the like. thanks for the help, LL

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:31:23 +0000

I am so terribly out of touch. . . is “being farked” the new and punningly appropriate way of saying “being slashdotted”?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:26:45 +0000

Fark gets hundreds of times the readers I do. Literally. A link from Fark can bring down a site.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:04:21 +0000

er, more correctly, Jupiter was in the SW sky where I am, and if it wasn’t cloudy and pouring rain where I am, I could have seen it.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:03:29 +0000

I don’t know where you are in the world, but at 9:47 PM pacific time, Jupiter was in the south-west sky with (according to Starry Night) an apparent magnitude of -2.38, which would pretty much be brighter than anything other than the nearly full (waxing gibbous) moon.

Odds are, a steadily moving, barely visible object is a satellite.

By: prideri

prideri — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:47:19 +0000

very boring compared to the metorite/ tsunami/ end of the world chat- lol – but i see eithr a planet or the brightest star i’ve ever seen in the western sky tonight. looking for someone with more experience {99% of the world population} to tell me what i’m looking at. also i was watching what i thought was a satelite { very distant, moving steadily, barely visible } moving eastward, right overhead. But it’s direction changed to northeast. I don’t believe in flying saucers. what might do that? way too high to be a plane. the shuttle isn’t out. do satelites change direction? or just orbit straight around. I’ve seen satelites before {i figure } ANYONE?? thanks, lou

By: prideri

prideri — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:34:33 +0000

anyone looking at the sky tonight?

By: Hawk one

Hawk one — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:41:42 +0000

I’ve checked the University of Oslo’s web pages on this astronomer, where the famous (at least in Norway) astronomer Knut JÃ¸rgen RÃ¸ed Ã˜degÃ¥rd has given a briefing of the event. Unfortunately, I didn’t find an English version (perhaps I just suck at looking, though)

He doesn’t make any conclusions about whether this particular meteorite hit the ground or exploded up in the atmosphere, though it seems that he thinks it’s so far more likely that it’s the latter. He’s also talking about some eye witness reporting, who claims that the light shone so brightly that it actually lightened up the area… Which is a pretty damn impressive thing when you’ve already got a midnight sun going.

The reason it’s not yet found is most likely because the area it fell in is basically not having much people nearby. North Norway in particular has huge patches of land more or less uninhabitated. (As a whole, there’s roughly 13 people per square kilometre… But most of them live in Southern Norway)

Unfortunately, this has got far less space in the mainstream media here than it should, so I can’t tell you much more than you probably already knew, Phil.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:23:16 +0000

There’s apparently a price tag on pieces of that alledged meteorite of upwards of 100 000 kroner according to an article at nordlys.no.
Perhaps I should try and secure a year’s worth of income… Norway’s just next doors anyway.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:57:13 +0000

I think the conclusion is that BA readers like to know what they’re talking about before they say anything. Fark is under no such restraint.

By: John B. Sandlin

John B. Sandlin — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:31:36 +0000

Tom, the fark page shows the news posted at Fri, 09 Jun 2006 at 2:12 PM and BA Blog shows Friday, June 9, 2006 at 12:45 pm – now I don’t know what time zones each represents – but that doesn’t seem like Fark was a day earlier (unless it uses the first time zone west of the International Date Line).

jbs

By: Tom K

Tom K — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:57:41 +0000

Amazing. Nine comments on the Bad Astronomy forum and 285 on Fark.com Plus the news item was posted there a day earlier.