[meteorite-list] Scratch that 250 gram "main mass"

[Mike Jensen]

Hi Darren and list
Here is a video news story with somewhat better view of the "big kahuna"
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/more-meteorites/#clip117132
If you keep watching other related clips will be shown as well.
Mike


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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> There's a (lousy) photo on the page.

>

> How do you get drool stains off a keyboard?

>

> http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081204/meteorite_update_081204/20081204?hub=SciTech

>

> Prairie resident finds big chunk of meteorite

>

> Updated Thu. Dec. 4 2008 11:04 AM ET

>

> CTV.ca News Staff

>

> People are calling it the "Big Kahuna" -- a 13-kilogram meteorite that landed in

> Buzzard Coulee, Sask. two weeks ago.

>

> Amateur meteorite hunter Les Johnson says it's "blind luck" that he found the

> Big Kahuna about five kilometres from the pond where University of Calgary

> professor Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley first found 10 such

> space rock fragments near Lloydminster, Alta. on November 27.

>

> At the time, the university researchers reported that they believed more

> fragments were strewn across a 20-square-kilometre area near the Battle River.

>

> That's where Johnson got his cue on where to look for the fallen meteorites,

> which fell to Earth during the meteor event that was seen across several Prairie

> provinces on November 20.

>

> "Just blind luck really," Johnson told CTV Edmonton.

>

> "I was out searching for several days and we heard Dr. Hildebrand and his team

> had found some things further north, so I thought we'd better come out on this

> side of the river and have a look."

>

> The Big Kahuna, Johnson said, "has got some heft to it."

>

> At present, dozens of meteorite fragments have been recovered since November 20.

>

> Robert Haag, an Arizona meteorite collector, promised $10,000 to the first

> person who found a kilogram-sized fragment.

>

> Canada's largest meteorite shower took in Bruderheim, Alta., when more than 700

> fragments were recovered in 1960.

>

> With a report from CTV Edmonton and files from The Canadian Press

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