Giant meteor hit Norway!!!!

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Giant meteor hit Norway!!!!

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Giant meteor with impact of a Hiroshima Nuclear Device come down to earth...

http://forums.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=522

Strange that no one saw this coming, if it landed in populated areas...cannot imagine.
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Hi,
Giant meteor with impact of a Hiroshima Nuclear Device come down to earth...

http://forums.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=522

Strange that no one saw this coming, if it landed in populated areas...cannot imagine.
Hmm... just wonder did they exaggerate it... If the impact was really as powerful as the atomic bomb, I think they'll find the impact site easily... :P

IMHO, it not strange that no one saw it coming... it not the first time and I think it won't be the last time... the amount of resource use for finding those asteroids are just too little... :(

Anyway, good luck to all of us and hope no such big asteroids will hit us in the near future....

Have a nice day.
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Post by Airconvent »

agreed...sometimes newsmakers tend to exaggerate.
I would assume this was probably a larger meteor but not anywhere near hiroshima....that power destroyed an entire city!
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