[meteorite-list] Another Meteorite Lands in Norway?

           http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1383090.ece
           
           
           Another meteorite hits Norway
           
           Aftenpoften (Norway)
           
           July 10, 2006
           
           
           A meteorite weighing around two kilos landed right in the yard outside
           
           Bjørn Herigstad's home in coastal Jæren, western Norway, over the 
           weekend. It's the second meteorite-landing in Norway in a month, and
           
           experts are calling the incident sensational.
           
           
           Bjørn Herigstad says he found the meteorite just outside his house at 
           Orre, in the Jæren district just south of Stavanger in Rogaland County. 
           When he went outside Sunday morning, he found a crater on his property,
           
           about 25 centimeters deep.
           
           
  "I couldn't understand why there was such a hole and just started 
           filling it in," Herigstad told local newspaper Jærbladet. 
           
           But then he found an unusual stone a few meters from the crater. "It's 
           the oddest stone I've ever seen," he said. 
           
           Herigstad said he took it into his kitchen and washed it off, then
           
           weighed it. "You could see that it had melted and that it's burned on 
           one side," he said. "What if it had hit our house? It would have gone 
           right through the roof. I wonder whether our insurance would have
           
           covered it."
           
           
           Per Amund Amundsen of the Stavanger Astronomy Society says that
           
           meteorites land on Norway as often as every month, but most are never found.
           
           
  "This is a bit of a sensation," said Amundsen, who's also a professor at 
           the University in Stavanger. "It's not unusual that a meteorite of this 
           size would have created such a hole. This is incredibly exciting."
           
           
           Astronomers were also excited last month when residents of northern
           
           Norway saw a meteorite streak through the light summer sky before it hit
           
           the ground east of Tromso. The University of Oslo's astro-physics
           
           department has a full report of the meteorite on its web site that's in
           
           Norwegian only, but it's possible to see a photo
           
           <http://www.astro.uio.no/ita/nyheter/ildkule06/ildkule06.html> of that 
           meteor before it hit.
           
           
           Knut Jørgen Ødegaard, an astronomer at the University of Oslo, agreed 
           that the meteor at Jæren over the weekend "is very special. What's 
           sensational is that it fell so close to a house. That's extremely unusual."
           
           
           Herigstad, meanwhile, isn't sure what he'll do with the meteorite, which
           
           could be a valuable sales object. A quick check on the Internet revealed
           
           prices as high as NOK 700,000 (more than USD 100,000).
           
           
  "We had just been wondering whether a cabin we're building is getting 
           too expense, and then this falls out of the sky," he said with a laugh.