(meteorobs) 'Super-Meteor' Lights up Finland's Northern Sky

[David Entwistle]

This extract is taken from the following page...

http://www.yle.fi/news/left/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.

Possibly more here...

http://www.avaruus.fi/
-- 
David Entwistle