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Abee meteorite

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Alberta's Abee meteorite to be auctioned today

A slice of one of Canada's most famous meteorites -- a large chunk of which was traded by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1997 to acquire a major U.S. collection of space rocks -- is to be sold for up to $8,000 on Monday at a Bonhams auction in New York.
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The Abee (EH4) meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, on the 9th June, 1952.
A total mass of 107 kg was recovered.

54° 13'N, 113° 0'W

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Billion-year old meteorites, found in Canada, go on auction Monday

A slice of one of Canada's most famous meteorites - a large chunk of which was traded by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1997 to acquire a major U.S. collection of space rocks - is to be sold for up to $8,000 on Monday at a Bonhams auction in New York.
The planned sale of a 192-gram piece of the Abee meteorite is just the latest chapter in the remarkable saga of the globally unique geological specimen, believed to have been catapulted into space by an explosion on the planet Mercury during the birth of our solar system, and which landed 4.6 billion years later - at precisely 11:05 p.m. on June 9, 1952 - in a wheat field about 90 kilometres north of Edmonton.
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