A number of people in southern and western Norway report seeing a meteorite in the sky on Saturday at 7pm.
On Saturday, the police and the Norwegian Central Rescue Service received several reports of a bright green light in the sky. The Meteorological Institute assumes it’s a meteorite.
Police have received several reports of a bright green light in the sky.
– Metorittsverm
The Meteorological Institute has also heard of the reports.
– We’re in a meteor shower. It happens a few times a year, and there are often a lot of shooting stars. But this was probably a slightly larger meteorite, says meteorologist at the Siri Wiberg Meteorological Institute in Aftenposten.
– It catches fire when it enters the atmosphere. Then create a bright light. When a meteor arrives at night, it can feel like a few seconds of daylight, Wiberg says.
Many observations
Several readers told Stavanger Aftenblad of their observations:
“Today at 19.10 saw a large meteor. Large green ball with a large flame behind it. Observed at Foss Eikeland»writes Anne Linn Oftedal.
“An incredibly large meteor lit up over Stavanger around 1905.» writes Njål Selsvik.
“I just happened to see a meteorite from our house in Randaberg. I looked north and it flew west” writes Pål Dannevig.
“I was driving near Dirdal when I saw the meteorite. It was big and awesome”says Torgeir Gilje.
Aftenbladet reporter Cornelius Munkvik saw the meteorite from the Vestre plateau in Stavanger.
Observations from Tjelta, Tau, Bergen and Sirdal are also reported.
In a moment
Meteor sightings are difficult to capture on camera because they are over in an instant. That’s why you often see them on cameras on cars and taped on houses, he reports Norwegian meteorite network at BT.
– Quite often, small meteorites enter the atmosphere, but you rarely have the conditions in place to observe them, says press spokesman Tor E. Aslesen of the Norwegian Meteor Network.
The vast majority of meteorites burn up before they reach the ground, according to Aslesen.
High speed
In meteorite it is a meteoroid that fell to Earth through the atmosphere as a meteor. The speed is usually 25-30 km/s, but is calculated up to 72 km/s (260,000 km/h). The high speed creates great friction which causes most of the meteors to burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the earth, only very large or very small fragments reach the globe.
Most meteorites are assumed to be fragments of collisions between larger asteroids in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
