Meteoritenfall in Finnland?

[Mark Vornhusen]

Hallo,
es gibt einen möglichen Meteoritenfall in Finnland am 28.9.2007:

http://www.yle.fi/news/id71032.html

Finland's biggest astronomical association, Ursa, says that a light phenomenon seen over much of northern and eastern Finland on Friday night was a meteor -- the brightest seen in the country in more than 30 years.
The editor of the organization's journal, Marko Pekkola, says it was a superbolide, a fireball more than 100 times brighter than a full moon.

The fireball was apparently caused by a space rock striking the atmosphere over Northern Ostrobothnia and then exploding over Finland. Ursa says the rock may have weighed some 200 kilogrammes. However it was not clear on Saturday whether any meteorites fell to the ground.

The dazzling 'shooting star' spurred worried telephone calls to emergency centres in various parts of Finnish Lapland, as far apart as Kemi, Enontekiö and Ivalo.

YLE, Tähdet ja avaruus



Hier gibt es weitere Infos in Finnisch:
http://www.avaruus.fi/
Uhrzeit war demnach 21:39 am Freitagabend. Weiter unten steht auch etwas von einer Meteorkamera, leider kann ich kein Finnisch.

[Timo Kuhmonen]

Hallo,
Hier gibt es weitere Infos in Finnisch:
http://www.avaruus.fi/
Uhrzeit war demnach 21:39 am Freitagabend. Weiter unten steht auch etwas von einer Meteorkamera, leider kann ich kein Finnisch.

Indeed, it is very interesting for me (I suppose for many other Finnish peolpe also ) to follow the details of this event. Now there seems to be two video clips added to this "www.avaruus.fi" -address, from Jarmo Moilanen

[Timo Kuhmonen]

Hier gibt es weitere Infos in Finnisch:
http://www.avaruus.fi/
Uhrzeit war demnach 21:39 am Freitagabend. Weiter unten steht auch etwas von einer Meteorkamera, leider kann ich kein Finnisch.

At the above address, there is now update available. It tells about companies surveillance cameras, and some of those also recorded the flash. In some there are also visible shadows, caused by the bolide light.

According to story, URSA has now had over 500 reports of the fireball. Quite a much, I have to say (!)