Saturday, November 29, 2008

Canadian Meteor Found






Here is the graduate student who got to Saskatchewan ahead of our own ambitious and intrepid explorer, T.L.


Read the full story including the original pictures or the Associated Press story about a University of Calgary graduate student, Ellen Milley and her teacher, Alan Hildebrand who found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along Alberta-Saskatchewan border, near the city of Lloydminster late Thursday.




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Well, it would have been a long drive for T.L. anyway.
Zoom the map to see that the largest nearby American city is Great Falls, MT.

So should we be afraid of meteors? Cornell University's Astronomy department says not to worry.
In the 4th paragraph they refer to the K-T event . Can you tell me what that is?