On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 at night.
The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a 6 foot- deep crater in a wheat field when it was found five days later. A piece of it is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Abee is classified as enstatite chondrite with petrologic type 4. It is the only type in the world of this specific meteorite. Scientists think meteorites like Abee formed near the sun, where it would contain little or no water, according to the museum.
The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a 6 foot- deep crater in a wheat field when it was found five days later. A piece of it is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Abee is classified as enstatite chondrite with petrologic type 4. It is the only type in the world of this specific meteorite. Scientists think meteorites like Abee formed near the sun, where it would contain little or no water, according to the museum.
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00:00On this day in space. In 1952 the Abbey meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada at 11
00:07p.m. The space rock weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a six-foot
00:13deep crater in a wheat field five days later. A piece of it is on display at the
00:17American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Abbey is a rare type of
00:20meteorite classified as an enstatite chondrite with petrologic type 4. Enstatite
00:25chondrite meteorites are stony space rocks that have not been altered due
00:29to differentiation or melting. Petrologic type 4 chondrites are
00:32recrystallized and rough in grain size. Abbey is the only meteorite in the world of
00:37this specific type. Scientists think meteorites like Abbey formed near the Sun
00:41where it would contain little or no water according to the museum. And that's
00:45what happened on this day in space.