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Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
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Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#22Too 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.
That'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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Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#23About 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 new…
I 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=i... -- a "chariot of fire" is pretty apt description, IMHO.
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#24Some better footage: https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=2...
There'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.
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#25About 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 new…
Did you hear anything?
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#26Some better footage: https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=2...
Did it get picked up on any seismometers?
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
By that definition, would a meteor that vaporizes in our atmosphere before impact just be considered a meteor?
Asteroid, 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
Meteoroid: rock in space smaller than asteroid.
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#28About 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 new…
I 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 t…
"Like Helios" maybe, but I think in Helios's case the 'chariot of fire' is carrying the Sun across the day's sky. As I recall from the myth, at night he sails (on water) from West to East to prepare for the next day. The story doesn't fit well with a fast-moving night-time meteor(ite).
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#29Some better footage: https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=2...
There'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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/or9aqc/ro...
The post has been removed but the video is still there.
Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo
#30All 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.
The 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.
It's roughly a logarithmic progression in size an frequency. So: 10x larger -> 10x rarer.
Tunguska-size impacts are roughly 1x century.
Distributions are pretty much random. God may or may not play dice with the Universe, but the Univers plays dice with Earth.