Massive meteor explodes in the sky over Norway

Source photo: Ronny Tertnes.

A huge meteor exploded and lit the sky over Bergen, Norway, on December 6th, 2016.

Around the clock 5:15 Tuesday morning came a large meteor entering the atmosphere west of  Shetland, with a speed of 20 kilometers per second, according to the nrk.no website. Those who were out at this time could see a bright light in the sky and then a shooting star.

''I heard about the meteor when I woke up this morning. When I ran out to check my camera. And there was the meteor, right in the picture! It is almost inconceivable to have so luck,'' says Ronny Tertnes.

Tertnes has a camera standing on the terrace of Valle in Bergen, which stands ready to catch whatever might happen in the night sky. If something happens, the camera takes it up.

''I've got some good pictures with this camera, but this is the toughest I've got, no doubt,'' he says.

The meteor that came through the atmosphere west of Shetland. The spent probably 12 to 15 seconds through the atmosphere before it fell down about 200 kilometers from the coast.

''What happens is that the stone collides with the air as it enters the atmosphere. The speed is so great that the air in front is that a concrete wall. When it explodes, and the strong light is because it is released energy, and that the stone is brutally heated,'' says astrophysicist Tor Einar Aslesen, who heads the Norwegian Astronomical Society.

The meteor explodes probably around 30-35 km altitude and broke in several parts. Aslesen says it is likely that some of the meteor has fallen down to earth, because it was so big.

''It was the stronger that the full moon, so it may have been around a tonne before it entered the atmosphere. And maybe it was a few kilos when it came right down, but unfortunately fell enough down in the North Sea.''

            

Could something from space have wiped out the herd of Reindeer in Norway?

A herd of reindeer was struck by lightning in Norway, killing at least 323 of the animals. Reindeers are known to huddle together during storms.

According to the New York Times, officials surmised that an extremely high discharge of electricity from the storm on Friday afternoon - and the interaction of the lightning with the earth and water - had electrocuted the animals.
Norwegian officials say they've never seen anything of this scale.

On the same day, two of NASA's space weather monitoring spacecraft were picking up something unusual.


Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/europe/hardangervidda-norway-lightning-reindeer.html?_r=0


            

         
            

Rare colorful 'cloudships' appear above the Arctic Circle, Tromso in Norway

There is an army of colorful alienspaceships floating above Tromso in Norway. The insane polar stratospheric cloud may be associated with the destruction of ozone over the city. 

December 16, 2015, 10am, some even more intense mother of pearl clouds appeared hovering like colorful ufo spaceships over the town of Tromso in Norway. 

Aliens are hiding their spacecraft in colorful clouds these days?

According to Spaceweather, this week, sky watchers are reporting an outbreak of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) around the Arctic Circle. Unlike normal grey-white clouds, which hug Earth's surface at altitudes of only 5 to 10 km, PSCs float through the stratosphere (25km) and they are fantastically colorful.

Truls Tiller photographed these over Tromso, Norway, on Dec. 16th.