[meteorite-list] Norway again?

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, All,

    Back on July 19, in a post about my (oddly)
correct weight guess for the Moss meteorite,
I said:

> But don't worry. If things are on schedule,
> Norway should have another big daylight
> detonator in about five weeks, just like the
> last pair... Don't they always come in three's?

    It's been 41days. I'm slipping. I was off by
six days and missed the daylight by few hours.
They're going to take my fortune-telling license
away if I keep this up.


Sterling K. Webb
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From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Norway again?


http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1430392.ece

UFO lit up northern skies
Calls streamed in to local police stations during the night after an
unidentified flying object darted over the night skies in northern Norway. A 
top
astronomer, though, thinks it was another meteorite.
Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard thinks the object flying though the
northern skies Monday night was a meteorite.

Several police districts logged reports from members of the public who 
observed
"something" flying at high speed.

"What they're talking about here is some sort of flying object, and we can't
explain what it was," Oddgeir Slettli, operations leader for the Midtre
Hålogaland Police District, told dagbladet.no.

Observations were reported from Finnsnes to Trondheim. The main search and
rescue station in northern Norway (Hovedredningssentralen Nord-Norge) 
reported
that calls also came from crews on board ships off the northern coast, 
according
to Dagbladet.

"It was colored white, green and gold, and lights seemed to blow off it like 
it
was a sparkler," said one observer, Andre Grønmo. "It looked like it was a
comet, and it was around four- to five times larger than a plane, and it 
flew
much faster."

Slettli said others described a "green, lighted ball with a tail" that flew 
low.
He said neither the Defense Department's radar station or its rocket 
facility at
Andøya, nor the tower at Evenes airport, which serves Harstad and Narvik, 
had
picked up the object.Slettli said calls came from people in Narvik, 
Vesterålen
and Lofoten among other places, just before midnight on Monday.

A flurry of reports also came over the Coast Guard radio, and from an SAS 
flight
and a Hurtigruten (Coastal Voyage) passenger ship.

Knut Jørge Røed Ødegaard, one of Norway's most well-known astronomers, said 
he
thinks the UFO was actually another meteorite, a large rock containing a lot 
of
chemical elements. There have been confirmed reports of at least two 
meteorites
hitting Norway since June.

"When they enter the earth's atmosphere and meet the air, they warm up and 
can
light up in a second," he told dagbladet.no.

This one's contents, the astronomer said, could explain why it seemed to 
change
color as it flew through the night sky, which only recently has started 
getting
dark again after the summer's midnight sun.

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