Image: Abee meteorite, partial slice 5.45g

Description: This beautiful and rare brecciated enstatite chondrite (EH4) fell in June of 1952, in Alberta, Canada. According to witnesses, a brilliant fireball lit up the sky north of Edmonton for several seconds and was followed by rumbling sounds. One individual who was at a drive-in movie claimed that the light from the fireball was so bright it obscured the film screen. Several days after the fireball event, a farmer discovered an unusual hole in his wheat field. At the bottom of this hole rested a single large meteorite mass with a weight of ~107 kgs! This was the only Abee mass recovered from the fall. This amazing fusion crusted partial slice was expertly prepared by Russ Kempton of NEMS. It displays the beautiful brecciation that makes Abee unique among the E-chondrites and it also contains a large chondrule which is not common in Abee.
Title: Abee meteorite, partial slice 5.45g
Credit: Flickr: Abee
Author: Jon Taylor
Permission: This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 7 March 2012, 17:40 by Basilicofresco. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 CC BY-SA 2.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 truetrue
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Attribution Required?: Yes