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Golfer Orville Delong was walking up to the sixth tee of the Doon Valley Golf Club in Kitchener when he heard a projectile pass near his left shoulder and felt a puff of wind. But it was not a lost golf ball-it was a small meteorite. The golfer immediately recovered the rock, which had fallen four metres in front of him with a dull thud. The rock was completely covered by a smooth black fusion crust. Mr. Delong noticed that the meteorite had a distinct odour. 
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The Kitchener (L6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Ontario, Canada, on the 12th July, 1998.
A total mass of 203 g was recovered.

43° 23'N, 80° 23'W

This meteorite, weighing 202 grams, fell to Earth at 8:30am on Sunday, July 12, 1998. It passed close to the left shoulder of Orville Delong, who was walking up to the 6th tee. It was not actually seen to fall, but from the noise it made it was located embedded in the path about 4 metres west of the 6th tee. The detection of the short lived cosmogenic radionuclides manganese-54 and sodium-22 confirmed that it was travelling in space until a few seconds before it startled Orville.
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