New meteorite fall discovered in Oslo city - over a pound in weight

A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim

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On 2012-03-13 14:05, Bjørn Sørheim wrote:
A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.

Wonderful! (Wonderful that people are taking an interest. Wonderful that
you have allotments. The waiting list for allotments in some parts of the
UK is now 40 years...)



"Each year in the UK farmland equal to five times and size of Exeter
(100,000 acres) disappears under buildings, roads and leisure areas".

Depressing ain't it :-(

Bjørn Sørheim wrote in message
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A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim




With all these billions of people on this planet, just one recorded
meteorite fatality , a dog in Egypt some time last century

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Bjørn Sørheim wrote in message
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A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim


With all these billions of people on this planet, just one recorded
meteorite fatality , a dog in Egypt some time last century


But there was also Tunguska in 1908. It is claimed that 1000
reindeers perished. Possibly also three people. One man was
thrown up in a tree and broke his arm.
There is also the Hodges woman that was hit by a large meteorite on
her hip in Sylacauga, US in 1954.
That Nakhla dog is said to be a myth, by the way.

But generally meteorites hits noone and is an exciting gift from heaven.

Bjørn

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A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim


With all these billions of people on this planet, just one recorded
meteorite fatality , a dog in Egypt some time last century


But there was also Tunguska in 1908. It is claimed that 1000
reindeers perished. Possibly also three people. One man was
thrown up in a tree and broke his arm.
There is also the Hodges woman that was hit by a large meteorite on
her hip in Sylacauga, US in 1954.
That Nakhla dog is said to be a myth, by the way.

But generally meteorites hits noone and is an exciting gift from heaven.


"But there was also Tunguska in 1908". Apparently that one was about 1,000
times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a good job
that on that particular occasion 'Sod's Law' didn't dictate that it hit a
large city, such as Moscow or New York :-(

"Hils" wrote in message
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On 2012-03-13 20:06, Rick wrote:

"Hils" wrote in message
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On 2012-03-13 14:05, Bjørn Sørheim wrote:
A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.

Wonderful! (Wonderful that people are taking an interest. Wonderful
that you have allotments. The waiting list for allotments in some
parts of the UK is now 40 years...)

"Each year in the UK farmland equal to five times and size of Exeter
(100,000 acres) disappears under buildings, roads and leisure areas".

Depressing ain't it :-(

I've heard it said that building houses for everyone in Britain currently
without one would take only 5% of the remaining undeveloped land. Swords
into ploughshares, golf courses into allotments...

Does that include all of the required additional necessary infrastructure as
well?

Then of course we have predictions of our current population of 62,000,000
increasing to anywhere between 70 and 80 million by 2050, something which in
my view would not only be totally unacceptable (without serious civil
strife) let alone the remotest possibility of it ever being sustainable in
the long term.

On 14/03/2012 15:59, Rick wrote:

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A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim


With all these billions of people on this planet, just one recorded
meteorite fatality , a dog in Egypt some time last century


But there was also Tunguska in 1908. It is claimed that 1000
reindeers perished. Possibly also three people. One man was
thrown up in a tree and broke his arm.
There is also the Hodges woman that was hit by a large meteorite on
her hip in Sylacauga, US in 1954.
That Nakhla dog is said to be a myth, by the way.

But generally meteorites hits noone and is an exciting gift from heaven.


"But there was also Tunguska in 1908". Apparently that one was about
1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a
good job that on that particular occasion 'Sod's Law' didn't dictate
that it hit a large city, such as Moscow or New York :-(

Also rather worrying is what would happen if a similar event took place
today, but over a large city somewhere. Apart from the obvious tragic
local consequences for life beneath such an event, that is.
If the object involved was not detected beforehand, and the city
involved was in a country with nuclear weapons, what would be the
chances of a knee-jerk assumption that they had been attacked by
whoever their favourite nuclear-equipped enemy at the time would be?
Quite high in some countries I would think.

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On 14/03/2012 15:59, Rick wrote:

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A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim


With all these billions of people on this planet, just one recorded
meteorite fatality , a dog in Egypt some time last century


But there was also Tunguska in 1908. It is claimed that 1000
reindeers perished. Possibly also three people. One man was
thrown up in a tree and broke his arm.
There is also the Hodges woman that was hit by a large meteorite on
her hip in Sylacauga, US in 1954.
That Nakhla dog is said to be a myth, by the way.

But generally meteorites hits noone and is an exciting gift from heaven.


"But there was also Tunguska in 1908". Apparently that one was about
1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a
good job that on that particular occasion 'Sod's Law' didn't dictate
that it hit a large city, such as Moscow or New York :-(

Also rather worrying is what would happen if a similar event took place
today, but over a large city somewhere. Apart from the obvious tragic
local consequences for life beneath such an event, that is.
If the object involved was not detected beforehand, and the city
involved was in a country with nuclear weapons, what would be the
chances of a knee-jerk assumption that they had been attacked by
whoever their favourite nuclear-equipped enemy at the time would be?
Quite high in some countries I would think.

Yes I've often thought about that myself, especially if a reasonably sized
one landed on somewhere like Israel.

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On 14/03/2012 15:59, Rick wrote:

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Bjørn Sørheim wrote in message
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A new chondritic brecciated meteorite was found in the
eastern part of Oslo on Sunday March 11.
It had gone through the roof of a small cabin on the
Rodeløkka allotment gardens.
It is uncertain when it fell, as the cabin was first checked
out for the season on Sunday.
But many thinks it fell in the evening of March 1st as a large
fireball fragmented over this part of Norway at the time.
The weight is 585g and it broke in two parts as it
went through the roof.
This was major news in Norway yesterday.
Articles:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-hi...artid=10078768
http://www.mylder.no/go/12195051
Great images:
http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728

Bjørn Sørheim


With all these billions of people on this planet, just one recorded
meteorite fatality , a dog in Egypt some time last century


But there was also Tunguska in 1908. It is claimed that 1000
reindeers perished. Possibly also three people. One man was
thrown up in a tree and broke his arm.
There is also the Hodges woman that was hit by a large meteorite on
her hip in Sylacauga, US in 1954.
That Nakhla dog is said to be a myth, by the way.

But generally meteorites hits noone and is an exciting gift from heaven.


"But there was also Tunguska in 1908". Apparently that one was about
1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a
good job that on that particular occasion 'Sod's Law' didn't dictate
that it hit a large city, such as Moscow or New York :-(

Also rather worrying is what would happen if a similar event took place
today, but over a large city somewhere. Apart from the obvious tragic
local consequences for life beneath such an event, that is.
If the object involved was not detected beforehand, and the city
involved was in a country with nuclear weapons, what would be the
chances of a knee-jerk assumption that they had been attacked by
whoever their favourite nuclear-equipped enemy at the time would be?
Quite high in some countries I would think.


Talk of the devil, either that or they read our posts..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115943/Atomic-bomb-Asteroid-2012-DA14-come-closer-Earth-satellites.html

Also rather worrying is what would happen if a similar event took place
today, but over a large city somewhere. Apart from the obvious tragic
local consequences for life beneath such an event, that is.
If the object involved was not detected beforehand, and the city
involved was in a country with nuclear weapons, what would be the
chances of a knee-jerk assumption that they had been attacked by
whoever their favourite nuclear-equipped enemy at the time would be?
Quite high in some countries I would think.

Yes I've often thought about that myself, especially if a reasonably
sized one landed on somewhere like Israel.


The lack of radioactivity would be something of a give-away.