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Hunt is on for latest meteor in Norway
January 11, 2021
Lots of people in and around the small town of Løten in Southern Norway could both see and hear that a meteor landed somewhere in the vicinity last week. Now the search is on to find it, a job made difficult by lots of snow in the area.
The star on the map shows where the latest meteorite to hit Norway landed. GRAPHIC: NORSAR
“It happens from time to time that meteors land on the earth,” notes Anne Strømmen Lycke, chief executive of NORSAR, the Norwegian independent research agency that monitors seismic activity. She told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK), however, that it’s not often “we’ve ever been able to see so clearly where it landed.”