Meteor fragments are Manna from Heaven
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Last month University of Calgary’s Rob Cardinal was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a comet.
“It is the first time a comet has been discovered at U of C’s Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, which is located about 35 kilometres southwest of Calgary, and only the second Canadian discovery of a comet, using a Canadian telescope, in nearly a decade,” said the university at the time.
This month, U of C geologist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley were also looking for a comet. And they found it —- but not in space.
Instead, it was lodged in pond-ice in Buzzard Coulee across the provincial border in western Saskatchewan.
Part of the meteor seen in blazing across the sky east of Red Deer, Alberta, and west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a little more than a week ago, it disintegrated as it entered Earth’s atmosphere, scattering fragments far and wide.
“Hildebrand said the landowner, Ian Mitchell, now owns the meteorites and any more found on his land,” says the Edmonton Sun.
“They’re worth $1 to $10 per gram. A head-sized rock could fetch up to $50,000.”
Talk about manna from heaven.
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University of Calgary – New comet discovered at Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, October 14, 2008
blazing across the sky – Canada meteor ‘like a billion-watt light bulb’, November 24, 2008
Edmonton Sun - Two meteorites found south of Lloydminster, November 28, 2008
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November 29th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
HAHAHA … unless it’s part of an alien space craft it’s not worth anything
35 to 50% of earth is made up of asteroids, not counting most of water in oceans
Have i got some land and water to sell you, any takers?
Manna? LMAO .. the records say Manna is actually the product of the gods. Can anyone tell me what on earth it is?
Nice scheme he’s got going though
November 30th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Yes, meteors are worth that much. There are people (usually astronomers & geologists) who actually search for and sell meteors for a living. It’s good money if you can do it.
Ones that have broken off Mars from asteroid impacts are worth even more (hundreds to thousands of $$$ per gram).
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
A Poem for Milley
On frozen pond,
it sits so nice.
A little star,
stuck in the ice.
It’s not a leaf,
I heard you say.
Pieces of heaven.
came this away.
Older than earth,
it traveled far.
Now in my hand,
We have a star.
by
a. tymstra