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Meteor over Western Canada

A meteor entered Earth’s atmo­sphere over the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on Thursday night and the first videos of its entry are starting to filter through onto YouTube. [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw[/youtube] [youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PSL3b6bCR7s[/youtube] This is some of the best meteor footage I’ve ever seen.

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Barringer crater

Enlarge Map… Bar­ringer crater was formed about 50 000 years ago when a nickel-iron met­eorite about 50 metres wide, with a mass of 150 million kilo­grams slammed into the ground in the Arizona desert at about 13 kilo­metres per second (about 29 000 miles per hour). The … Continue reading

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