记录到陨星击中挪威（Record meteorite hit Norway）

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原文：http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece


As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.

在周三（6月7日）黎明时分，挪威北部受到的撞击相当于广岛原子弹

At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky.
在周三大约凌晨2：05左右，Troms北部和Finnmark西部的居民能够清晰地看到一个火球在几秒钟的时间里划过天空。

A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok.
几分钟后传来冲击的巨响同时地球物理学和地震学研究基金会 NORSAR 于02：13：25 a.m在他们的Karasjok站记录到一个强大的声音和地震扰动。

Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his mare Virika was about to foal for the first time.
农夫 Peter Bruvold 因为他的马 Virika 头一次生小马驹，所以正好带着照相机在他位于Lyngseidet的农场外面。



"I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash.
“我看到天空中的一个明亮的闪光，随后还有一个冒着烟的尾巴。”Bruvold拍到了这个物体后继续照顾他的马，并听到了一声巨大的撞击声。

"I heard the bang seven minutes later. It sounded like when you set off a solid charge of dynamite a kilometer (0.62 miles) away," Bruvold said.
“7分钟后我听到了巨响。听起来就像是在一英里外引爆了一立方的炸药。”Bruvold说到。

Astronomers were excited by the news.
天文学家对此消息非常兴奋。

"There were ground tremors, a house shook and a curtain was blown into the house," Norway's best known astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten.no.
“大地在颤动，房屋在摇晃，窗帘被吹进了屋里。”挪威最知名的天文学家 Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard 这样形容。

Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms.
Røed Ødegaard 说尽管在极昼的午夜方圆数百千米范围内都能看到这个陨星。陨星击中了位于北Troms Reisadalen的一座山的山腰。

"This is simply exceptional. I cannot imagine that we have had such a powerful meteorite impact in Norway in modern times. If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb. Of course the meteorite is not radioactive, but in explosive force we may be able to compare it to the (atomic) bomb," Røed Ødegaard said.
Røed Ødegaard说：“真是太意外了。我无法想象在当代挪威会受到如此猛烈的陨星撞击。如果陨石真的如同看上去的那么大，我们可以把它同广岛原子弹相比较。当然陨石是没有放射性的，但是爆炸威力可能颗原子弹相当。”

The astronomer believes the meteorite was a giant rock and probably the largest known to have struck Norway.
天文学家认为陨星是一个巨大的石块，可能在挪威是已知最大的一块。

"The record was the Alta meteorite that landed in 1904. That one was 90 kilos (198 lbs) but we think the meteorite that landed Wednesday was considerably larger," Røed Ødegaard said, and urged members of the public who saw the object or may have found remnants to contact the Institute of Astrophysics.
Røed Ødegaard说：“有记录的Alta陨石是在1904年坠落的，有90千克重。我们认为周三回落的陨星要大得多。”Røed Ødegaard 迫切要求见到或发现残余物的公众联系天文协会。



箭头是陨石坠落方向，圈子里是可能的坠落地点