Blazing meteorite lights up Arctic sky with "glow of 100 full moons"

AP November 18, 2017, 10:57 AM

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was "the glow of 100 full moons" and igniting hurried attempts to find the reported meteorite.

Finnish experts were scrambling to calculate its trajectory and find where it landed, according to Tomas Kohout of the University of Helsinki's physics department, who said Thursday night's fireball "seems to have been one of the brightest ones."

It produced a blast wave that felt like an explosion about 6:40 p.m. and could also be seen in northern Norway and in Russia's Kola peninsula, he told the Associated Press on Saturday.

Footage captured by Aurora Service Tours showed the bright flash over the night sky.

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Leonid meteor shower may have left behind an amazing find
November 18, 2017

Finnish experts are scrambling to calculate the trajectory of a blazing fireball that lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds in an attempt to find the celestial body.

Tomas Kohout of the University of Helsinki’s physics department says Thursday night’s fireball — allegedly a meteorite — “seems to have been one of the brightest ones.”

Kohout says the alleged meteorite produced a blast wave that felt like an explosion about 6:40 p.m. and could be seen in northern Norway and in Russia’s Kola peninsula.

“We believe it didn’t disintegrate but reached a remote corner of Finland,” Kohout told The Associated Press on Saturday. However, any search plans for the meteorite must face the fact that “right now we don’t have much daylight” — four hours, to be precise.

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http://www.arkansasnewsonline.com/leonid-meteor-shower-may-have-left-behind-an-amazing-find.html