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Old 11-26-2008, 12:38 AM   #86
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Follow up story on Tuesday night.

10-tonne asteroid lit up Prairie skies: Univ. of Calgary
Updated Tue. Nov. 25 2008 8:09 PM ET
CTV.ca News

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A fireball that streamed across the skies over Alberta and Saskatchewan last week was a 10-tonne asteroid, according to a researcher at the University of Calgary.

Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the university's Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre, said the rock would have been the size of a desk as it entered the atmosphere, before breaking up into
meteorites. ...

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