Norway Hit by Meteorite

I recently read that scientists may have found under the ice where an asteroid hit Antarctica 250 millions years ago and if they're right, the asteroid may be tied to what's called the Permian extinction which wiped out most life on Earth at the time.

The meteorite that hit Norway was just a small fellow that hit somewhere in the northern mountains but it hit with the impact of an atomic bomb (hat tip to Raw Story):

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

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.

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.

At first I didn't think the picture of the meteor streaking across the sky at 2 am was all that remarkable since the meteor in the form of a shooting star wasn't particularly bright. And then I realized it's June and it's daylight that far north!