Friday, November 21, 2008

Meteor blazes across the Canadien sky

clipped from www.news.com.au
A SPECTACULAR and almost blindingly bright meteor sparked a flurry of emergency calls to the police after it lit up the skies over western Canada.

Onlookers across the province of Alberta watched in awe, describing a kaleidoscope of colours as the rock rapidly descended.
the meteor could in fact be a substantial meteorite weighing a few tonnes
More meteorites, fragments of rocks or metals that survive the fall from space to Earth, have been found in Alberta than any other Canadian province.
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