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Meteorites -- Yukon Territory

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View Resource Arctic Asteroid!

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) news service provides this report on the composition of the meteor that put on a brilliant sky show before landing in Western Canada this January. The fragments of the meteorite fell into a frozen lake, so they were not recovered for study until the lake began to thaw this April. Analyses of the pieces that were recovered suggest that the...

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/a...