DISCOVERY OF THE BLAINE LAKE, CANADA, STONY METEORITE

Name : BLAINE LAKE

Place of find: 7 km south-southwest of Blaine Lake, Saskatche­wan, Canada.

52°46.2'N., 106°53.8'W.

Date of find: Summer, 1974.

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

Number of individual

specimens: 1

Total weight: 1896.4 g

Circumstances of find: The meteorite was discovered by Mr. N.W. Perver­seff of Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan beside a road south-southwest of Blaine Lake. It was sent to Mr. A.T. Blackwell, University of Saskatchewan, Sas­katoon and identified by him in March, 1976. It was subsequently purchased for the National Meteorite Collection Ottawa. It is sufficiently similar in texture, mineralogy and composition to the Red Deer Hill meteorite (q.v.), which was found 80 km to the east-northeast to raise the possibility that the two meteorites came from the same fall.

Sources: Mr. A.T. Blackwell, Herzberg Institute of Astro­physics, Physics Building, University of Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Canada, S7N OWO; Dr. A.G. Plant and Mr. H. Steacy, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OE8; Mr. M.R. Dence, Earth Physics Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Ontario K I A OY3, Canada.