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  H4

TKW 41 kg. Observed fall 20 November 2008, Wilton Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada.


   

Murray writes:

I found this prize meteorite at the end of a long day of searching. The sun was on the horizon and I realized that I had passed a stone out of the corner of my eye and my subconscious had noticed it. We went back to where I thought that it might be and there it was!!! In photo #2 you can see a fairly large iron inclusion poking out of the crust. I have used a tiny magnet to verify that it is not an iron sulphide inclusion. The golden color probably indicates a light oxidation. This was the largest stone I found in my 7 weeks of searching the strewn field.

The slice was made up of one of my broken specimens by Dr. Chris Herd at the University of Alberta. I seem to recall that they sent the stone to the Royal Ontario Museum where it was wire saw cut into 8 slices.

Buzzard Coulee was a widely observed fall seen on November 20, 2008. The first stone was spotted by Ellen Milley on November 7th, one week later. Buzzard Coulee is an H4 Chondrite.