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How much for a meteorite? On eBay, the sky’s the limit

JUN 28, 2006

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020222

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The Seattle Times : Something lit up the Norwegian sky on June 7. A streaking fireball, caught on film, followed by an earth-shaking impact recorded at the Karasjok seismic lab at 2:13:25 a.m.It became international news when University of Oslo astronomer Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard told a local newspaper: “If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb.”
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