Meteors fell to northern Norway

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Farmer Peter Bruvold - prepared a camera to take a picture of his donkey child giving birth - was lucky enough to "catch" the meteor in the middle of the morning - Photo: Aftenposten

At 2 am 7-6 (local time), a large meteorite flies in the skies of Troms and Finnmark, northern Norway and falls with a strong impact on the bomb falling on Hiroshima, Japan.

Daily newspaper Aftenposten said meteorites appeared as a fireball, clearly visible on the hundreds of kilometers in the bright summer sky over the Arctic Circle.

Later, meteorites fell on an uninhabited mountain slope at Reisadalen, north of Troms. Karasjok Earth Physics Station (Norway) measured the impact of meteorite on the ground. Many houses were shaken and curtains were blown into the neighborhoods of the neighborhoods.

Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard - Norway's leading astronomer - said he hoped to prove that this Norwegian falling meteorite was the largest, weighing about 1,000kg, breaking the previous record of the Alta meteorite weighing 90kg in the year. 1904.

He said that comparing this meteorite to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima was compared to the explosion but the radioactive meteorite.

UA