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USGS · 70162352

What was that?

Abstract

At 4:20 local time on September 19, 1986, Mrs. Laurie Harder saw a meteor passing across the sky above her home in Yellowknife, N.W.T. She reported her observation to Yellowknife Seismic Station staff who examined the records of the Yellowknife seismic array to see if the associated meteoroid had hit Earth and generated observalbe seismic signals.

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90° N90° S · 180° W ← longitude → 180° E
Source-reported bounding extent: 62.36999628130772° to 62.53512792634123° latitude; -114.55718994140625° to -114.23583984374999° longitude. This indicates report coverage, not an exact sampling location. View area on OpenStreetMap.

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F. M. Anglin, R. A. W. Haddon. 1988. What was that?. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70162352

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