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Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
- mdeck_ 5y agoSome better footage: https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=2...
- sundvor 5y agoThere's recent footage on Reddit ("rocks falling from the cliff" + /nextfu**glevel/ ) showing the enormous energies of a rock slide in Himachal Pradesh which was just brutal (people died, although footage does not depict that directly). It was impossible not to think of it when seeing the above; you really wouldn't want to be anywhere near the impact site of a larger meteor if you could help it.
- wolfram74 5y agoDid it get picked up on any seismometers?
- habibur 5y agoAll those "5 meteorites to pass by Earth this month" title makers never hit earth. And those that hit earth don't seem to make any news before they strike.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> All those "5 meteorites to pass by Earth this month" title makers never hit earth. 100% of all meteorites hit the Earth, by definition. I think you mean “meteor”.
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoBy that definition, would a meteor that vaporizes in our atmosphere before impact just be considered a meteor?
- CyanBird 5y agoAsteroid, meteor, meteorite, aerolite I'd like to know if someone else knows other variations Asteroid: rock in space Meteor: asteroid in atmosphere (falling generally) Meteorite: meteor which touched ground Aerolite: rock in atmosphere (be it flying, falling, levitating or otherwise) Comet: Icyspace rock, comma and ejecta are not strictly necessary
- 9front 5y agoMeteoroid: rock in space smaller than asteroid.
- user-the-name 5y agoThe ones that we can see before they hit are very big. The ones that do hit are too small to be seen beforehand. There are a lot more of the smaller ones than the bigger ones.
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- dmix 5y agoToo bad there wasn’t a bunch of people driving with car cameras like in Russia, which turned out to be very useful during their meteorite event. This was also at 1am at night in a more rural area. Maybe more video will come out as this news spreads and people check security cameras.
- astrophysics 5y agoThat's because no one can afford to drive in Oslo any more. Every road is a toll road and there are no parking spaces any more.
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- hanche 5y agoThat’s quite an exaggeration, though I understand how it can seem that way to some. Anyhow, it’s the middle of summer vacation, so lots if people are out of town. But more to the point, the meteor was visible over an area vastly bigger than Oslo. Even more to the point, dashcams aren’t that common in Norway, I think (though I have no data). In Russia, they are said to be very common as a defence from corrupt police and wrong claims of other drivers in case of accidents.
- grkvlt 5y agothe first twitter video link in a comment above looks like dashcam footage?
- themodelplumber 5y agoThose car cams have done some absolutely historic data collection. Did you ever see the dashcam video of a driver panicking and hurriedly slamming their car into reverse when shells started falling in an eastern Ukrainian city? Still blows my mind to think of what we can all see now as if we're right there.
- Negitivefrags 5y agoAbout 2 years ago there was a meteor around this size or maybe a little smaller that passed over Auckland, NZ. I was sitting in my spa pool looking up at the stars around midnight and it passed over head. Took about 30 seconds and went from one side of the sky to the other an left a huge streak of fire. There were a couple of posts on social media like “Did anyone see that giant fireball?” but no video footage or news about the event otherwise. I always feel like nobody believes me when I tell them this.
- Oliver_Daemen37 5y agoI do believe you, same happen to me in the Netherlands
- the-dude 5y agoHad you been drinking?
- eliaspro 5y agoHad a similar experience around 8 years ago over southern Germany.
- peterburkimsher 5y agoI saw one a couple of months ago from Pakuranga! No sound, so it must've been far away, but at first I thought it must be a firework (bright white though, ending in a flash not an explosion). Could've been space junk not a meteor.
- cs702 5y agoI had an identical experience while on the coast of the Mid-Atlantic US several years ago: a giant fireball flew over me for around half a minute, give or take. I was indoors looking at the sea at night through a large window. There was no sound I could hear from inside the room. I was so mesmerized by the meteor that it didn't occur to me to take my eyes off from it, you know, to grab my phone and record the whole thing. It all looked like a special effect in a big-budget movie, but in real life. Now, I'm almost certain that mythological figures like Helios, who rides a "chariot of fire" in the sky, must be interpretations of similar meteor sightings in antiquity: https://www.google.com/search?q=helios+chariot+of+fire&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=helios+chariot+of+fire&tbm=i... -- a "chariot of fire" is pretty apt description, IMHO.
- Foivos 5y agoI saw the sky lighting up several times. I thought it was a thunderstorm and was confused by the total lack of sound. Here is the best video I could find: https://www.nrk.no/norge/meldinger-om-ildkule-pa-himmelen-etterfulgt-av-hoyt-smell-1.15586531 https://www.nrk.no/norge/meldinger-om-ildkule-pa-himmelen-et...
- cronin101 5y agoI missed out on the flash but the pressure wave rattled my front door like someone was trying to get in (and the dog was none too pleased about that).
- Quai 5y agoI saw the flash, and around three minutes later, heard the sound. It was impressive! If I'm right about the time between the light and the sound, it was around ~60km/37mi away, but still clearly audible!
- gundamdoubleO 5y agoI was wondering what the hell that was last night
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- valiant-comma 5y agoAnyone can report fireball sightings at the American Meteor Society website: https://www.amsmeteors.org/ https://www.amsmeteors.org/ Looks like this could be the event: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/3995 https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/...
- ccsalvesen 5y agoHere is the Norwegian Meteor Network's report on the event: http://norskmeteornettverk.no/meteor/20210724/230849/ http://norskmeteornettverk.no/meteor/20210724/230849/
- dalkvist 5y agoCool! I didn't think the tracking cameras was on during the summer. But I guess Southern Norway still have some dark hours.
- mightyRodri 5y agoFinding the debris in that forest might result in a nice Sword I rekon.