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Magorion
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: Meteorite plummets through Norwegian roof |
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Meteorite plummets through Norwegian roof
MOSS, Norway, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- For the first time since 1969 a meteorite has reportedly struck a European roof.
The nearly 25-ounce meteorite landed on the roof of a warehouse in Moss, Norway, about 40 miles south of Oslo.
"It must have had incredible speed and force, and had made a hole in a steel plate in the roof," a warehouse spokesman told Aftenposten.
Norwegian Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard said the incident is the first since 1969 in which a meteorite has gone through a roof anywhere in Europe.
The meteorite is a so-called carbon CO-meteorite. Previously only five falls of CO-meteorites have been observed on Earth, and the last one occurred in Russia in 1937, he told Afterposten.
On July 14 a huge fireball flared across the sky in the southeast part of eastern Norway. The Norgesgruppen meteorite is believe part of the object that broke up over eastern Norway.
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PricklySponge
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I wish a meteor would hit my roof, that would be so cool |
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ubikk
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| apparently it's caused a mass craze of people having sex in cars. |
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spearsy23
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| What are you talking about? Didn't you know today was world sex in a car day? |
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spearsy23
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| What are you talking about? Didn't you know today was world sex in a car day? |
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