[meteorite-list] A new 676 g meteorite went through storage building in Moss

Michael L Blood mlblood at cox.net
Wed Aug 9 12:44:45 EDT 2006


Hi Bjorn & all,
        Great photo.... a little trouble reading the text....
        I guess this means not one gram of this meteorite
will be available to collectors.
        Michael


on 8/9/06 7:00 AM, Bjorn Sorheim at astrogeo at online.no wrote:

> 
> Just out in many newspaper websites etc in Norway:
> A 676 g CO meteorite was found after a roof started to leak following the
> first rains after the July 14th fall.
> A company was hired to find the reson for the leakage.
> 10 cm down in the roof  the cause of the leakage was found,
> another meteorite!
> This stone fits the stone found in Frode Johansens garden (752 g).
> It will today be donated to the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo
> by the company owning the storage building.
> This must be the first fall through a roof in Europe since Glanerbrug in
> April 1990. (Not since 1969 as stated in the norwegian article.)
> 
> 
> http://www.moss-avis.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/SISTENYTT/60809009
> 
> 
> Bjørn Sørheim,
> in Norway
> 
> 
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