Canada awash in ‘Buzzard Coulee’ fragments
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- When a meteor soared across the sky in Canada, it became big news around the world.
It was “literally a billion watt bulb in the sky,” the Calgary Herald had Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre at the University of Calgary, saying.
Experts wanted to find exactly where it hit in hopes of finding fragments and if reports are correct, parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan are awash in bits of meteor.
“The sheer number of asteroid fragments that touched down on Nov. 20 in Saskatchewan — first lighting up the sky in a dramatic light show witnessed by people across the prairies — may have set a new Canadian record,” says CTV, going on:
“Rather than just one space rock hitting the ground, as first thought, the bounty appears to consist of thousands of fragments, according to the team that has co-ordinated the recovery.”
And, “As many as 20 volunteer searchers a day included local residents, U of C staff and graduate and undergraduate students, professors from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, amateur astronomers from the Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton centres of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and geoscientists from Conoco-Phillips Canada,” says 660 News. “Most searchers found at least one meteorite.”
The asteroid is being called the “Buzzard Coulee fireball,” named after the area where Milley found the first fragments, says CTVm, adding:
The largest meteor fall previously on record occurred when hundreds of fragments were recovered near Bruderheim, Alta. in 1960.
soared across the sky – Canada meteor ‘like a billion-watt light bulb’, November 24, 2008
Calgary Herald -Hunt on for space rock, November 22, 2008
CTV – 10,000 meteorites touched down in Sask.: scientist, December 22, 2008
660 News - Northern Alberta meteorite could smash record, December 22, 2008
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