FALL OF THE INNISFREE, CANADA, STONY METEORITE

Name: INNISFREE

Place of fall: 13 km NE of Innisfree, Alberta, Canada.

53°24'54"N., 111°20'15"W.

Date of fall: February 5, 1977.

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L4-5).

Number of individual

specimens: 6, and fragments.

Total weight: 3.79 kg

Circumstances of find: The main mass, of 2.07 kg, was found on snow on February 17, 1977, at the site predicted from calculations based on fireball photographs. Other stones were found on April 10th and 11th. A further fragment was found on April 21st. All stones were found within a 400 m X 500 m area. Centre of `ellipse of fall' was 300 m from point predicted from calculations assuming a 4 kg mass. Specimens now in National Meteorite Collection, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa and in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Source: I. Halliday, A.T. Blackwell A.A. Griffin, 1978. The Innisfree meteorite and the Canadian Camera network. J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada 72, 15-39.