header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 26 Mar 2024
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:
 
Revelstoke
Basic information Name: Revelstoke
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1965
Country: Canada
Mass:help 1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 34  (1965)  C1
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  CI1
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  CI1
Recommended:  CI1    [explanation]

This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites classified as CI1.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 1), and CI chondrites
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 34:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy.

FALL OF REVELSTOKE STONY METEORITE, CANADA

Name: REVELSTOKE.

The place of fall or discovery: 64 km northwest of the city of Revelstoke, British Co­lumbia, Canada; φ = 51°20' N, λ = 118°57' W.

Date of fall or discovery: FALL, March 31, 1965, 21 hrs. 47' Pacific Standard Time.

Class and type: STONY, carbonaceous chondrite type I.

Number of individual specimens: 4 (two recovered).

Total weight: About 1 gr. recovered.

Circumstances of the fall or discovery: An extremely bright bolide giving off sparks was observed to travel for 100 km. (8 seconds) at 15° inclination; blue white at high altitudes, it exploded at 30 km. with a brilliant flash of white light, and travelled onward as two or more distinct reddish fireballs which went out at an altitude of 12 km. over a very wild and desolate range of glaciated mountains and spruce forest. Violent detonations were heard up to 130 km. from the fall area and were recorded on four seismo­graphs as much as 400 km. distant.  Search by plane and helicopter immediately after the fall was unsuccessful, but two guides and trappers living ten km. south of the fall area in the course of their spring trapping operations for beaver, observed two impact areas on the ice of a small lake, and ano­ther two in the snow of the neighbouring forest. These small fragments lay directly along the trace of trajectory plotted by Drs. J. Galt and E. Argyle of the Dominion Radio Astro Physical Laboratory at Pen­ticton, British Columbia, and L. Bayrock of the Research Council of Alberta, Edmonton.  Two of the samples of disaggregated meteorite were collected, the other two were lost on melting of the lake and snow. Identification was made at the, Uni­versity of Alberta and confirmed by the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.  Search for the main mass or masses is continuing, using air photographs taken shortly after the fall and heli­copters to support ground search.

Source: Report of Prof. R. E. Folinsbee (Edmonton, Canada) in a letter, VII.26 1965.

Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 34, Moscow (1965)
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography:

Canada
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (51° 20'N, 118° 57'W)
     Recommended::   (51° 20'N, 118° 57'W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from British Columbia, Canada (plus 2 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 67 approved meteorites from Canada (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 31 impact craters)
Proximity search:
Find nearby meteorites: enter search radius (km):
Also see:
  This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.

Direct link to this page