DISCOVERY OF THE RED DEER HILL, CANADA, STONY METEORITE

Name: RED DEER HILL

Place of find: 7 km north of Red Deer Hill elevator and approximately 14 km SSW of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

53°4'30"N., 105°50'30"W.

Date of find: May, 1975.

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6), (Olivine Fa26 by microprobe analysis).

Number of individual

specimens: 2

Total weight: 2.51 kg

Circumstances of find: One piece of 1.06 kg was found 2.5 km north of Red Deer Hill during seeding in May, 1975 by Mr. J. Hrynuik of Red Deer Hill. A second piece, 1.45 kg, was found approximately 0.8 km north of the first during a field inspection about two weeks later. A piece was cut and sent to the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon where it was identified by Prof. L. Coleman in July, 1975. Both speci­mens are angular and retain most of their fusion crust, but do not match together. There is little doubt that they come from the same fall, which may have been a fireball reported in 1963. May also be identical to Blaine Lake (q.v.).

Sources: Prof. L.C. Coleman, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada, S7N OWO; Dr. A.G. Plant, Geologi­cal Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A OE8; Mr. M.R. Dence, Earth Physics Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A OY3.