

Meteorite search yields rocks
LONE ROCK -- After a week-long search, researchers from the University of Calgary have located fragments of the meteor that lit up skies near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on Nov. 20.
Twelve of the unassuming black rocks -- pieces of a 10-tonne asteroid that hurtled toward the Earth at a speed of 14 kilometres per second -- were found embedded in the ice on a series of ponds 40 km southeast of Lloydminster on Thursday.
"It's a very big moment in a very short career," said Ellen Milley, a graduate student working under meteorite specialist Alan Hildebrand.
Milley -- out in the field for the first time -- spotted the fragments during a search patrol. The first piece she investigated turned out to be a leaf, but she was thrilled when the next one proved to be a 250-gram piece of the asteroid....


















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