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RE: Alberta fireball

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Meteorites from the Lone Rock, SK Strewn Field
(Bruce McCurdy's provisional webpage)

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The location of the 13 kg fragment.

Latitude: 52° 57' 28" N, Longitude: -109° 52' 16" W

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-- Edited by Blobrana at 18:19, 2008-12-05

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Bob Haag, meteorite collector extraordinaire, wants a piece of the meteorite that came down in Saskatchewan, and he's prepared to pay someone $10,000 to find it for him.
Haag, who lives in Arizona, says he would go to Saskatchewan himself but for Canada's "insane" law prohibiting taking meteorites out of the country.

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Ed ~ Meteorites found automatically belong to the landowner unless permission from the landowner was first asked.
Canadian law provides the provision that any meteorites found in their territory can be first purchased by universities and institutes. Export permits can be applied for if the institutes have enough material to study or refuse to buy.

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A fragment of last month's fireball is like a gift from God for the Wainwright man who stumbled across it.
Warren Wiley, a 38-year-old who has been eking out a living by fashioning antler carvings and hunting knives ever since he hurt his back years ago, joined the hundreds of meteorite hunters searching for fragments of the Nov. 20 fireball.

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Farmers dealing with hordes of meteorite hunters
With hundreds of amateur meteorite hunters descending on the area around Marsden, Sask., near the Alberta border, some farmers are being kept hopping dealing with the crowds.
It's been particularly hectic around Ian Mitchell's farm, a property southeast of Lloydminster where the first meteorite pieces were discovered by University of Calgary researchers on Nov. 27.

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Several fragments, including a 13-kilogram chunk the size of the boulder, have been recovered from the asteroid that exploded over western Saskatchewan on November 20. And the ongoing search for more remains is giving researchers led by Department of Geoscience professor Alan Hildebrand more clues about the nature of the spectacular fireball after graduate student Ellen Milley spotted the first pieces in a frozen pond outside Lloydminster last Thursday afternoon.

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Buzzard Coulee meteorites

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RE: Alberta fireball

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After a 10-ton meteor exploded in a spectacular fireball over the Canadian province Saskatchewan two weeks ago, the hunt was on to find fragments of the space rock. Researchers and local enthusiasts descended on the area around Marsden, Sask, and have found dozens of fragments like the one pictured here - discovered on an icy lake by Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley. Already, the researchers have learned a lot from the recovered meteorite bits.

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After a week-long search, researchers from the University of Calgary have located fragments of the meteor that lit up skies near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on Nov. 20.
Twelve of the unassuming black rocks -- pieces of a 10-tonne asteroid that hurtled toward the Earth at a speed of 14 kilometres per second -- were found embedded in the ice on a series of ponds 40 km southeast of Lloydminster on Thursday.

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