On this day in space! June 9, 1952: Abee meteorite falls in Canada

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 p.m. at night.

The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a 6 foot- deep crater in a wheat field when it was found five days later. A piece of it is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A piece of the Abee meteorite on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (Image credit: American Museum of Natural History)

Abee is classified as enstatite chondrite with petrologic type 4. It is the only type in the world of this specific meteorite. Scientists think meteorites like Abee formed near the sun, where it would contain little or no water, according to the museum.

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Hanneke Weitering is a multimedia journalist in the Pacific Northwest reporting on the future of aviation at FutureFlight.aero and Aviation International News and was previously the Editor for Spaceflight and Astronomy news here at Space.com. As an editor with over 10 years of experience in science journalism she has previously written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After studying physics at the University of Tennessee in her hometown of Knoxville, she earned her graduate degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University. Hanneke joined the Space.com team in 2016 as a staff writer and producer, covering topics including spaceflight and astronomy. She currently lives in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her spare time, Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and looking for dark skies to gaze at the cosmos.