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Fireball Events

The Tagish Lake Fireball and Meteorite [18-Jan-2000]

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Tagish Lake in the news

 

Source of oldest, rarest meteorite found.
cnn.com or local.

Rare Canadian Meteorite Tagged as First of Its Kind Found on Earth.
space.com or local.

Unique B.C. Meteorite a hot find.
globeandmail.ca or local.

 Arctic Asteroid
 Chemists Find Primordial Clues in New Meteorite
 Meteorites may be most primitive
 Primordial meteorite defies known categories
 Canadian Meteorites May Be Oldest Ever Found
 NASA studies prisine Yukon Meteorite
 Yukon Meteorite recovered!
 Meteorite may offer new window on old universe

Links to other Tagish lake pages

Joint Press Release on the Tagish Lake Event
Map of Tagish Lake, B.C., and Location of Meteorites
Even More Photos of the Tagish Lake Event

Meteorite analysis pages (.pdf format)

Tagish Lake: A Special New Type 2 Carbonaceous Chondrite Fall
Carbon (And Eventually Nitrogen and Argon) in the Tagish Lake (Yukon) Carbonaceous Chondrite.

Links to other meteor related pages

Canadian Meteorite Catalog
Meteoritical Bulletin Web page
The Prairie Meteorite Search

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