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

From: Mike Jensen <*meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:02:38 -0700 Message-ID: <6f9da8300812040902p71d7f55dha155c60e19262b53_at_mail.gmail.com> · meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com

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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.
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> How do you get drool stains off a keyboard?
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> http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081204/meteorite_update_081204/20081204?hub=SciTech
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> Prairie resident finds big chunk of meteorite
>
> Updated Thu. Dec. 4 2008 11:04 AM ET
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> CTV.ca News Staff
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> 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.
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> "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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