Canada’s biggest meteorite fall landed on frozen farmland in 1960
At 1:06 in the morning on 4 March 1960 a fireball lit hundreds of kilometres of prairie and the shock of its explosion was heard over some 5,000 square kilometres. What came down on the frozen fields around Bruderheim was nearly 700 fragments weighing 303 kilograms together, which makes it the largest recovered meteorite fall in Canada and the most massive of the sixteen witnessed falls ever recovered here. It is an ordinary chondrite, class L6, rock that formed about 4.6 billion years ago when the solar system did, and because it fell on snow onto flat farmland in winter it was collected fast and clean. It became one of the most studied meteorites in the world, and pieces of it sit in collections on several continents.
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