« The future will be streamed to the personal device of your choice | Main | Enterprise Mashup » Meteor followupThat meteor crash in Norway that I mentioned last week might've been exaggerated, according to a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo. Aksnes goes on to explain that a meteor capable of a Hiroshima-like impact would almost completely burn up as it entered Earth's atmosphere, and that the remnants would hit the earth far too slowly - though impacts of that intensity have of course occurred. He estimates the North Troms impact to have been comparable to "a powerful conventional bomb".In another article, astronomer Truls Lynne Hansen of the Northern Lights Observatory estimates the weight of the meteor as around 26 pounds. jon posted this at 7:22 AM |
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