* Astronomy

The discovery of an unusual rock a quarter-century ago has been identified as the 69th meteorite find in Canada by U of C researchers.
The extra-terrestrial find was recovered by Vancouver resident Rolf Eipper in the 1980s when he found the rock after stepping out of his vehicle on a gravel road near Whistler, B.C.
The palm-sized, 100-gram specimen sat in Eipper’s house for decades until July, when the University of Calgary’s Prairie Meteorite Search announced another find by a Kelowna woman turned out to be a red herring after further tests determined it didn’t come from space.
But Dr. Alan Hildebrand, a university geology professor who also heads up the meteorite research team, said media reports about the aborted discovery led to Eipper to make inquiries about his find.

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