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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

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About 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 saw something similar decades ago. I believe you.

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

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post #23

About 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…

If the fireball took half a minute (or seemed to) it was probably reentering spacecraft debris, like an upper stage. These are slower than meteors and tend to be going nearly horizontally, which extends their lifetime.

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

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About 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 was in Christchurch New Zealand in September 2006 when we experienced a meteorite. http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/09122006.htm . Extremely loud, sounded like a truck had fallen over!

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

#34

About 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…

Felt like I had to dig this up, I saw it too from the beach at Matauri bay. Google timeline was handy in pinning down the exact date!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/reports-flood-in-of-possible-m...

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

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Too 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.

Those 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.

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cheers, yes it's a rather astounding display of kinetic forces.

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

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Anyone can report fireball sightings at the American Meteor Society website: https://www.amsmeteors.org/ Looks like this could be the event: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/...

Here is the Norwegian Meteor Network's report on the event: http://norskmeteornettverk.no/meteor/20210724/230849/

Re: Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

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post #4

Too 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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