Abee (meteorite)
| Abee meteorite | ||
|---|---|---|
Observed fall Yes | | |
| Fall date | 9 June 1952 | |
| Found date | 14 June 1952 | |
| TKW | 107 kilograms (236 lb)[1] | |
 Small 1.26 g slice. | ||
 Related media on Wikimedia Commons | ||
Abee is an enstatite chondrite meteorite that fell on 9 June 1952 in Alberta, Canada.
History
The Abee meteorite fell at 11:05 p.m. on 9 June 1952. A stone of 107 kilograms (236 lb) was recovered from a 6 ft (1.8 m) deep crater.[2]
It was found five days later in Harry Buryn's wheat field located in the community of
Abee, Alberta, Canada; which is located in Thorhild County, along the Canadian National Railway and Highway 63, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of Thorhild and 49 kilometres (30 mi) from Boyle
.
Classification
Abee is classified as an
petrologic type 4, thus belonging to the group EH4.[1] It is the only example in the world of an EH4 impact-melt breccia meteorite.[3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abee (meteorite).
- ^ a b c Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Abee
- ^ "Meteorite.fr - for Sale - Enstatite EH4 IMB chondrite meteorite". Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
- ^ Abee Enstatite Chondrite
External links
- Rubin, Alan E.; Scott, Wdward R.D. (1997). "Abee and related EH chondrite impact-melt breccias". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 61 (2): 425–435. .