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Originally posted by C.H.U.D.
When they say 'impact', they mean that it would have been free-falling the instant before it impacted ground... so yes, there may well have been an 'impact'.
Originally posted by Ghost147
and may be the size of a desk.
I hate to say it, but...
From page 21 of this thread:
Originally posted by C.H.U.D.
The object which caused this fireball was probably no bigger than 1-2m , perhaps 3m...
Searchers have found the remains of a 10-ton meteor that produced a dramatic fireball in the skies over the Canadian Prairies this month, researchers said on Friday.
Originally posted by FosterVS
I live 300 miles from Edmonton, never saw this, and today is the first I have heard about it. Yet I drive 2000 miles usually once a year to Nevada/Area 51, and see nothing unusual. Arghh.....
Originally posted by Phage
Originally posted by FosterVS
I live 300 miles from Edmonton, never saw this, and today is the first I have heard about it. Yet I drive 2000 miles usually once a year to Nevada/Area 51, and see nothing unusual. Arghh.....
Step #1: Look up.
No offense intended.
[edit on 11/28/2008 by Phage]
Originally posted by GEORGETHEGREEK
don t you find the frozen ripples a bit odd?
it just happens that the field adjascent ro the lake has just been earthed by a tractor?
and why the heck do they want to collect every last piece of the meteor?
TO ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE?
quite fishy...
[edit on 1/12/2008 by GEORGETHEGREEK]
A University of Calgary-organized team recovered more than one hundred meteorites from the November 20 meteorite fall southwest of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan/Alberta, which is expected to set a new Canadian record for the largest recorded meteorite fall.
Using the abundance of meteorites on the pond where U of C grad student Ellen Milley found the first fragments on November 27, Hildebrand calculated that about 2,000 meteorites of more than 10 grams in size occur per square kilometer in the northern part of the strewn field, and probably more than 10,000 meteorites of this size are on the ground altogether. Many local residents and landowners also found meteorites, as well as persons from across the prairies and meteorite dealers who traveled to Saskatchewan to try their luck.
Typing of the meteorite has been completed with the collaboration of Dr. Alex Ruzicka and Dr. Melinda Hutson, a husband and wife team at the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
“The meteorite is at the low end of the H4 type and may be transitional with type 3. It will take some more work to sort out everything, but we have good prospects to learn a lot about the rock’s history,” Ruzicka said.
A lower number in the classification indicates that a meteorite experienced less heating on its parent asteroid, making it of more interest to researchers and potentially to collectors as well. Lower metamorphic grades are relatively unusual in meteorites of the H, or “high iron” type, such as the Buzzard Coulee rocks.