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BEAVER CREEK
British Columbia, Canada
Fell May 26, 1893 - H5 Chondrite

Collection No. B11.2 - 6.687 gram part-slice with fusion crust showing a very porous and coarse matrix. Ex. Dr. J. Schwade.

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References:

Grady, M.M. (2001)  Catalogue of Meteorites , 5th edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Howell, E.E. (1894) Beaver Creek Meteorite, Am. Jour. Sci., Vol XLVII, pp 430 - 35.

The Beaver Creek meteorite fell between the hours of 3 and 4 in the afternoon on May 26, 1893. Detonations were heard for a twenty-five mile radius. A Civil Engineer named James Hislop found the stone the morning after it fell on the banks of Beaver Creek. The stone was buried about 3 feet in the soil with fresh soil scattered about the hole in all directions. The 12 kilogram stone was subsequently brought to washington State and sold to scientists

Left: a woodcut depicting the Beaver Creek main mass as it appeared in 1894. (Source: Howell, 1894).