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Springwater pallasite

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RE: Springwater meteorite

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Rare meteorite sliced open

Mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum had their first look Wednesday inside a rare, 53-kilogram meteorite chunk found near Springwater, Sask., in 2009.
After 48 hours of careful cutting, a wire saw studded with diamonds released a piece of rock about the size of a large slice of bread Wednesday morning from a hunk as large as a high school student's backpack.
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It came from out of this world to Toronto - via Saskatchewan.
And at the Royal Ontario Museum, scientists are hoping close inspection of a rare 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite will yield clues about Earth.
But first they had to cut it.
As reporters watched Wednesday, ROM technician Ian Nicklin demonstrated, using a slow-moving diamond-wire saw to slice through the 53-kilogram chunk of space rock discovered last year near Springwater, Sask.
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Researchers are hoping a fresh slice of a rare 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite will yield new information about our planet.
Using a diamond-wire saw, mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum cut into the 53-kilogram space rock for media cameras in the laboratory room.
Kim Tait, a ROM associate curator of mineralogy, says the Springwater pallasite meteorite is the most important and largest of its kind ever found in Canada.
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