How big was the meteorite that hit Norway Friday morning?

Question

Did it cause any seismic activity?

Answer 1

Wow I think the guy above me is a couple of sandwiches shy of a picnic basket. Here's part of a news story about it on slashdot.


Record Meteorite Hits Norway
Posted by Zonk on Friday June 09, @08:44PM
from the duck dept.
equex256 writes
"Early Wednesday morning, a meteorite streaked across the sky in northern Norway, near Finland and Russia. A witness (Article in Norwegian) went up the mountain to where it hit and reported seeing large boulders that had fallen out of the mountainside, along with many broken trees. Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, that he would compare the explosive force of the impact with the Hiroshima bomb. This meteorite is suspected to be much larger than the 90-kilo (198-pound) meteorite which hit Alta in 1904, previously recognized as the largest to hit Norway. From the article: 'Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms.'"

Answer 2

Nördlingen a beautiful little town, it also lies in a very interesting area. 15 million years ago, the Ries (About 25 km in diameter) was formed by the impact of a large meteorite that hit the earth at aspeed of at least 70.000 km/h. Today this crater is one of the best preserved uns researched meteorite craters in the world.

Because of its similarity to many moon craters, American Apollo 14 astronauts organized a field training from 10th August to 14th August 1970 in the Ries. Aresult of this scientific corporation the Ries Crater Museum received a piece of the moon rocks from the Apollo 16 mission on permanent loan from NASA.

I believe it was an experiment of space weapon. A practice of a missile cruised in space to hit the target on earth. But a missile is not a meteor. Everything would be clear if there was an investigation. That's why the news drew a tail, to hint it might be a terrorist bombing. But they could make people believe that without any practical exercises, (hundreds of hours at least, I suppose) the students of flight school could actually drive a modern plane to hit any target they wanted. It's still hard to ensure people that Bin Laden also has a space weapon. So we never hear anything further about that meteor.