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The fireball, which caused meteorites to be spread over southern Norway and Sweden, resulted in an appeal from Knut Jørgen Røed Odegaard for information. In an interview with The Foreigner at the time, he said he had so far received "800 answers with reports of sightings so far."
Whilst one of the black rocks made a hole in the roof of a property in Oslo, another meteorite fragmented into several pieces after hitting frozen ground.
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Oslo family stunned after meteorite lucky escape

A Norwegian family was flabbergasted to find that what appeared to be a piece of a meteorite had crashed through the roof of their allotment garden hut in the middle of Oslo.
The rock weighing 585 grams, which split in two, probably detached from a meteorite observed over Norway on March 1, experts said, and had landed on the empty hut in the Thomassen family's allotment in a working-class neighbourhood of the Norwegian capital.
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Leter etter meteoritten

Like etter klokken 20.30 i går kveld, ble det meldt om en meteoritt som falt ned over Sør-Norge. Politiet fikk meldingen om meteoritten fra en person som hadde sett en ildkule med hale og et kraftig lys, etterfulgt av et drønn.
Aftenposten.no har fått en rekke meldinger fra beboere på Ostlandet som opplyser at de så meteoritten.

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An astronomer is busy charting the location of meteorites following a fireball shooting across the sky, Thursday night.
It is thought many people witnessed the event, as it the fireball was extremely bright and it was followed by a loud bang.
Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, who is behind website Bangirommet.no, is asking for any information that people can provide about it.
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