# Meteor strike in Norway

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-norway/360509>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 12, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-norway/360509 "2006-06-12T23:49:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-norway/360509/1 "2006-06-12T23:49:08Z")

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Evidently last Wednesday there was a meteor strike in Norway, as reported in [Aftenposten](http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece).

So, does anyone have a link to before/after satellite photos? If it was comparable to Hiroshima, would we be able to see it?

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-norway/360509/2 "2006-06-12T23:59:14Z")

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Thread here:

> **[An Explosive Meteorite Impact In Norway](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=375359)**
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> No joke. It’s kind of pathetic there’s so little news about this. I stumbled across it perusing the Space.com site. They say the impact caused an explosion comparable to a small nuclear bomb. Fortunately, the thing hit a mountainside in a remote...

And here:  
[http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=42556](http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=42556)

Both have links to pics of the impact site.