Nothing in the picture to provide scale, but the original report, which put the impact at around 15 kilotons, sounds a wee bit exaggerated.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
More on Norway Space Rock
From the Norwegian Paper Aftenposten, a picture of the impact site of that big meteorite that hit a mountain in Norway. Text is in Norwegian, but the picture is reproduced here:
Nothing in the picture to provide scale, but the original report, which put the impact at around 15 kilotons, sounds a wee bit exaggerated.
Nothing in the picture to provide scale, but the original report, which put the impact at around 15 kilotons, sounds a wee bit exaggerated.
BCL, can't help with Norwegian, but the figure of "10-12 kilos" is mentioned in the text, and that might refer to the estimated weight of the rock.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the vegetation in the picture, it's low shrub with a small-to-medium birch in the lower left. It doesn't look like much of a crater considering those comparisons.
The origonal story here (in English)
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says that the rock had to be much bigger than 90 kilos.
Don't think there'd be any vegetation nearby if it was 90 kilos....
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