Saturday, March 17, 2012

Valuable Space Rock Crashes Into Oslo Cabin

Valuable Space Rock Crashes Into Oslo Cabin:

This meteorite struck the Thomassen family's cabin in Oslo. (Photo: Rune Thomassen)
A family in Oslo got a surprise when they visited their allotment garden cabin for the first time this season and found that a 585-gram (20 oz.) meteorite had ripped a hole through the roof. The space rock was discovered “lying five or six metres away,” the cabin’s owner, Rune Thomassen, told the local newspaper VG.
Such an event is rare in Norway; since 1848 the country has noted only 14 meteorite discoveries.


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