Meteor in Canada...anyone see it in person?

[BlueCrush]

http://vids.myspace.com/index....62845

[ajflan]

Holy crap thats friggin awesome!

[Celtic_Curse]

Yep it was really cool! Although I felt like a dinasour going....um is that bad? it was a 10 tonne rock that hit the atmosphere, they are still looking for it where they thought it hit earth.

[WaveAction]

thats pretty awesome it probably disinigrated(spelling?) into nothing but a pebble

[Celtic_Curse]

They say they are looking for a rock the size of a desk plus 100's of other smaller fragments, unfortunately they think some of it fell into a lake.

[Herb]

Quote, originally posted by Celtic_Curse »They say they are looking for a rock the size of a desk plus 100's of other smaller fragments, unfortunately they think some of it fell into a lake.What I heard was it was a size of a desk when it hit the atmosphere, but most likely broke apart with pieces that landed are the size of baseballs to tennis balls

[Silversn95]

Apparantly they found the asteroidhttp://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/545263

[bull77]

you guys out west better be out there looking --- 15000 CDN!!! Quote, originally posted by The Star »One meteor hunter from Arizona, Robert Haag, has offered up to $12,000 for the first one-kilogram chunk that's found.

[WaveAction]

im watchin daily planet right now and they're talking about it

[Herb]

http://technology.sympatico.ms...=True Big chunk of meteorite found in same area in Sask. where other pieces found03/12/2008 10:57:00 PMTHE CANADIAN PRESSBUZZARD COULEE, Sask. - An amateur meteorite hunter has found another piece of a meteor that blazed across the Prairie sky two weeks ago.Les Johnson says the chunk weighs about 13 kilograms and was found north of where scientists have already found 12 pieces of the estimated 10-tonne meteorite which lit up the skies on Nov. 20.Geologist Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary found fist-sized fragments of black, dimpled rock last week in and around a pond on Ian Mitchell's land.Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley collected about 12 pieces - the largest weighed 250 grams and smallest, 10 grams.The scientist said the rocks are 4.5 billion years old.The pieces are owned by the owner of the land on which they are found. Under Canadian law, meteorites may be bought and sold, but a federal permit is required to export them.The university estimated there could be thousands of meteorite pieces strewn over a 20-square-kilometre area.Hildebrand, a co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre with the Canadian Space Agency, estimated that the meteor could have been seen as far as 700 kilometres away, into the northern United States.It contained about one-tenth of a kiloton of energy when it entered the earth's atmosphere on Nov. 20, roughly the equivalent of 100 tons of the chemical explosive TNT.Besides sonic boom sounds, witnesses also reported hearing hissing or crackling noises like frying bacon.Fireballs can act as radio transmitters, Hildebrand said, causing odd sounds.The largest meteor shower in Canada occurred northeast of Edmonton near the town of Bruderheim in 1960. More than 700 fragments were recovered, and together they weighed a total of 300 kilograms.Robert Haag, a space rock collector from Arizona, has offered up to $12,000 for the first one-kilogram chunk of the meteor that is found.

[Silversn95]

What I don't get is that these people are shown holding the pieces of the asteroid with their hands. Don't they watch the movies.... always a bad idea