Researchers at the University of Calgary have released new details about a flaming meteor that lit up the night sky last week.
They say the meteor was an asteroid fragment the size of an office desk that weighed approximately 10 tonnes.
It first appeared about 80 kilometres above Lloydminster and traveled in a southeasterly direction towards the Battle River valley.
The meteor exploded several times and lit up the ground for several hundred kilometres.
Researchers say they concluded the size of the meteor based on infrasound readings taken at the time of the explosions.
Anyone who owns a business in the area with a security camera is asked to check it for any images of the explosion and pass the information on to the U of C's Alan Hildebrand at 403.220.2291
Hildebrand is returning to the search area to collect video from security cameras and talk to witnesses in the hopes of pinpointing the location.
He tells CTV Calgary that in the ten years of heading up the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre there has never been as much public interest in a fireball.
It is believed that hundreds of meteorites, some as large as a football, have been scattered on the ground in an area eight kilometres long and three kilometres wide. The valuable objects will belong to the person who owns the land on which they are found.
An Arizona meteorite collector has offered a reward of 10 thousand dollars for the first person who finds one.
