Flashing meteor that exploded over Norway landed somewhere in a nearby forest

[Judi Lynn]

By Ben Turner - Staff Writer about 5 hours ago

The meteor shook the air and created a sonic boom as it passed overhead.



The meteor, traveling up to 43,200 mph, lit up the night sky as if it were daytime.
(Image credit: Norwegian Meteor Network)

The hunt for fragments of an "unusually large meteor" that lit up the skies over Norway on 25 July has begun. The meteor awakened awestruck residents of the country's capital city, Oslo, with the sound of a large explosion.

Footage shows the fireball from the meteor streaking across the sky in a trail of bright flashes at around 1 a.m. local time Sunday morning before it landed somewhere in a forest near Oslo.

The rumbling of the meteor startled numerous residents and led to calls to Norwegian emergency services, though no injuries or damage have been reported yet, the Norwegian police said.

The Norwegian Meteor Network (NMN), a group that monitors meteor activity in the country, has analyzed video footage of the extraplanetary visitor's trajectory to pinpoint its landing site, which the group believes to be somewhere in Finnemarka forest, located 40 miles (60 kilometers) from Oslo.

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[catbyte]

1. Wow. At least it landed in the middle of nowhere.

Interesting--thanks for posting!

[Ocelot II]

2. 40 miles from Oslo isn't really the middle of nowhere.

Oslo is a city of a million people, not much smaller than Dallas. Fortunately it's surrounded by forests, which is where the pieces landed, but it could have fallen on the city.