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RE: Rodeløkka Meteorite

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Sparks fly over 'missing' meteorite

The Natural History Museum in Oslo put out a call this week for what its curator feared was a missing meteorite that hadn't been seen since its publicised landing in the Norwegian capital earlier this year. The museum's mystery was quickly solved when the meteorite was found in the hands of the country's most high-profile astronomer, but the museum curator was far from relieved.
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Another meteorite found in Oslo

A woman out walking her dog on the large grassy hilltop plateau known as Ekebergsletta in Oslo found the second meteorite in as many days in Norways capital on Tuesday. She said it was better that winning the local lottery.
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Thoughts on the recent Oslo meteorite discovery

Further, we are told that this particular meteor is a breccia. This is a type of rock which is composed on fragments of older rocks stuck together in some fashion, whether simply by heat and pressure or by some bonding substance (in much the same fashion as concrete is created).
However, we have some problems with all of this.
Firstly the fact that it is a breccia.
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Ed ~ Good to be suspicious, however there do not seem to be any problems to me. ie. the meteorite looks genuine.

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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.
Astrophysicist Knut Joergen Roed Oedegaard and his wife Anne Mette Sannes, a meteorite enthusiast, identified the object as a breccia, or a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock.
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Meteorite Falls on the Roof of a Family Allotment in Oslo

According to Norwegian daily VG, the meteorite caused a hole in the roof of the house. The owner of the house, Rune Thomassen told VG that the meteorite piece was about as big as a snowball, and as heavy as a regular stone in its size.
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