12-10-2009, 12:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2009, 12:32 PM by Questioner.)
Whatever it is, it's beautiful and unusual to see.
A one minute animation on Youtube clearly shows the out of control rocket theory.
From that video, there's a link to an astronomy discussion forum. Participants there had some speculation about it being a failed Russian or Chinese rocket launch.
There were also a couple of comedians:
"A miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer had a mishap over Norway during a routine test flight..."
"I was very upset when I saw it occured in Norway - I was hoping it was a Danish Swirl."
I also came across a link to this video on YouTube about a Chinese discussion of a rocket launch failure. The rocket footage is from 30 seconds to 1:30, the rest is discussion in Chinese which doesn't help me. Anyone here who speaks Chinese?
Peregrinus, thank you for finding out about the atmospheric physics facility near the town. I don't know what an ionospheric heater is, but I see that the facility says they have one for "various active plasma physics experiments in the high latitude ionospher." I'd like to see if someone who knows more about rocket fuel and plasma physics could figure out if the pictures show some potential link here.
Moderators, should this thread be in the Science area? What do you think?
A one minute animation on Youtube clearly shows the out of control rocket theory.
From that video, there's a link to an astronomy discussion forum. Participants there had some speculation about it being a failed Russian or Chinese rocket launch.
There were also a couple of comedians:
"A miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer had a mishap over Norway during a routine test flight..."
"I was very upset when I saw it occured in Norway - I was hoping it was a Danish Swirl."
I also came across a link to this video on YouTube about a Chinese discussion of a rocket launch failure. The rocket footage is from 30 seconds to 1:30, the rest is discussion in Chinese which doesn't help me. Anyone here who speaks Chinese?
Peregrinus, thank you for finding out about the atmospheric physics facility near the town. I don't know what an ionospheric heater is, but I see that the facility says they have one for "various active plasma physics experiments in the high latitude ionospher." I'd like to see if someone who knows more about rocket fuel and plasma physics could figure out if the pictures show some potential link here.
Moderators, should this thread be in the Science area? What do you think?