Peace River

Peace River is a documented meteorite fall in Alberta, Canada, classified as a shocked L6 chondrite, or hypersthene-olivine chondrite. In the early morning of March 31, 1963, a small meteoroid exploded about 13 kilometres above Alberta, splitting into two main fragments. A bright flash was visible from more than 160 kilometres away, followed by booming detonations. After snowmelt allowed a search, the first fragment was recovered on April 24, 1963, near the Mahood farm about 39 kilometres southwest of Peace River by John Westgate and R. E. Folinsbee. Its debris lay across an elliptical strewnfield about 8 kilometres long.

Alberta · Canada