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RE: Alberta fireball

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An Arizona meteorite hunter is offering a big reward for anyone who finds a piece of the giant fireball that blazed across Alberta last week.
The incredible object from space lit up the night sky on Thursday and was the talk of Western Canadians and space enthusiasts around the world.
Some experts believe the meteor fell east of Wainwright just across the border with Saskatchewan.
Scientists and treasure hunters from across the province, including Calgary, are scouring that area trying to find the debris trail.
Robert Haag, who runs a meteorite website in the U-S, says he'll pay 10 thousand dollars to the first person to find a piece.

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Meteorite search update: 10 tonne rock responsible for fireball
Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on November 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tonnes entered the Earths atmosphere over the prairie provinces last Thursday evening. And University of Calgary researcher Alan Hildebrand has outlined a region in western Saskatchewan where chunks of the desk-sized space rock are expected to be found.

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A leading researcher says one of the largest meteors to streak over Canada in the last decade broke up into pieces that may have landed in central Saskatchewan.
Planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand from the University of Calgary plans to spend the weekend in the Manitou Lake area near the town of Macklin, Sask., about 100 kilometres south of Lloydminster, near the Alberta boundary.

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Meteor In Edmonton, Alberta

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Meteor or UFO Lights up Alberta's Night Sky - 11/20/2008

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Meteor streaks across western Canada

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Scientists in Canada are hunting for pieces of a meteor that spectacularly lit up the night sky and then exploded into pieces before falling to Earth.
University of Calgary planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand plans to investigate an area around Macklin, Saskatchewan.

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The fireball spotted by hundreds of people Thursday evening likely broke into pieces that landed around the Alberta-Saskatchewan border near Wainwright, says a meteor expert.
More than 400 people reported seeing the object, said Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre at the University of Calgary. All the sightings helped narrow where meteorites might be found, said Hildebrand, who was headed for the area Friday night.

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Meteor over Canada

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A massive ball of fire that lit up the skies over two Western Canadian provinces on Thursday evening was likely among the biggest meteor events to be witnessed in Canada this year, one expert said.

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Thursday night, a meteorite fell in Western Canada, burning up as hit the Earths atmosphere and creating a brilliant flash over Alberta and Saskatchewan. Witnesses got to experience the brightest fireball the country has seen in over a decade. Fortunately for us non-Canadians, several video cameras captured the meteorites luminous fall.

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