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Tagish Lake fireball over Yukon and British Columbia

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A piece of the dark Tagish Lake meteorite
A piece of the carbonaceous Tagish Lake meteorite Mike Zolensky, NASA JSC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A morning fireball brighter than daylight was seen across the Yukon and northern British Columbia. U.S. defense satellites recorded a 2-3 kiloton explosion, and a local guide found carbonaceous meteorites on the ice of Tagish Lake a week later.

Sources

  1. OfficialThe Tagish Lake MeteoriteNASA Astrobiology / 2002-01-28
  2. OtherThe Tagish Lake Meteorite Recovery ExpeditionUniversity of Western Ontario Meteor Physics Group

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