Buzzard Coulee (H4)

NOTE: Oriented Stone are on bottom of page

Winter Finds are in Middle position

Spring Finds are on top.

On November 20, 2008 a great fireball illuminated the evening skies along the Alberta/Saskatchewan border of Canada. Some people heard tinking of hail on their roofs in the north end of the strewnfield. About three hours drive east of Edmonton, peices were found near Lone Rock. Some pieces were found on a frozen small river in a ravine named Buzzard Coulee. It was from the ravine the new H4 chondrite got its name.

The first pieces were recovered by a resident the next morning finding a large black stone in his lawn, and a week later the U. of Calgary team found more fragments on frozen ponds in the area. The University of Calgary were the first to hold a media frenzy about the meteorite finds. An intense hunt pushed forward in the next few days after the Calgary team's find, including my team. Both teams found hundreds of stones, and both were stopped by the heavy snow that fell a few days later.

In April 2009, the snows began to melt and I was the first person in the field to start the hunt again. I was only able to hunt the melted snow patches first, but every day the snows melted more and by the end of two weeks I was able to hunt the field unhindered. By the time I left, there where 13 other hunters in nearby fields. Within weeks there were over 50 people hunting.

The total known weight for the Buzzard Coulee is 450 kg, at this time.

All of these specimens will come with a copy of the Canadian export permit.

The meteor was caught on a police dash camera viewable on youtube here:

SPRING STONE FINDS	The stones were found during the spring snowmelt. They had spent the winter in deep freeze and were recovered as the snow retreated.

ID #: BuzzardCoulee0-5 Weight : 0.5 g Price: $ 10.00-hold eb Notes: Small piece. Has 50% fusion crust. Is about 1 mm thick.	ID #: BuzzardCoulee1-8 Weight : 1.8 g Price: $ sold Notes: Part slice has about 75% crust on the edges. Piece is about 2 mm thick.

ID #: BuzzardCoulee4-2 Weight : 4.2 g Price: $ sold Notes: Part slice has about 85% crust on the edges. Piece is about 2 mm thick..	ID #: BuzzardCoulee8 Weight : 8.0 g Price: $ 160.00-hold eb Notes: This individual has chips on the underside. One break face has fusion crust begining to form on it, while the other is a chip. Has 80% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee8-4 Weight : 8.4 g Price: $ 168 Notes: Individual with 70% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee16-2 Weight : 16.3 g Price: $ 194.40 Notes: Individual with 98% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee17-1 Weight : 17.1 g Price: $ 205.20 Notes: Individual with 95% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee17-3 Weight : 17.3 g Price: $ 207.60 Notes: Individual with 95% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee18-2 Weight : 18.2 g Price: $ 218 Notes: Half stone, 40% fusion crust. Broken face shows hint of fusion crust lipping over 1 edge.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee19-1 Weight : 19.1 g Price: $ 235-Sold & Shipped Notes: Individual with 99.9% fusion crust. Traces of orientation, but you really have to look for it. Sweet stone.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee20.9 Weight : 20.9 g Price: $ 250.00 Notes: Individual with 2 chips on each corner. 90% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee0-5 Weight : 0.5 g Price: $ 30,000.60 Sold Notes: Gives special powers that make you fly. Only can be seen by the chosen one.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 22-7 Weight : 22.7 g Price: $ 273.00 Notes: Individual stone with 80% fusion crust. The break face on it gives a nice window into the matrix. It is a bonus feature in this case.	In Situ
	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 23-1 Weight : 23-1 g Price: $ 277.00 hold till 4/10 Notes: Nice individual with 95% fusion crust. Has 2/3 primary and 1/3 secondary crust

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 22-9 Weight : 22.9 g Price: $ 274.80 Front	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 22-9 Weight : 22.9 g Price: $ 274.80 Back Nice individual with 50% fusion crust. Crust lips over a little onto the break face

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 23-2 Weight : 23-2 g Price: $ 279 95% fusion crusted individual

ID #: Buzzard Coulee23-6 Weight : 23.6 g Price: $ 283.20 Sold & Shipped 4/13 Notes: Beautiful individual with 99% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 24 Weight : 24 g Price: $ 288.00 Notes:Individual with 75% fusion crust. Some white mineralization on the top formed during winter.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 24-8 Weight : 24.8 g Price: $ 297.60-Sold & Shipped Notes: Individual with 99% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 25-8 Weight : 25.8 g Price: $ 309.60 hold till 4/9 %#*!-misplaced already! Notes: Beautiful individual with 100% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 27-4 Weight : 27.4 g Price: $ 329 Sold & shipped Notes: Individual with 98% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 30.2b Weight : 30.2 g Price: $ 363 Notes: Individual with 100% fusion crust. Awesome stone. Does have a little white mineralization on one corner.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 34-8 Weight : 34.8 g Price: $ 418 Notes: Individual with 90% fusion crust. Hint of lipping, but hard to tell.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 34-9 Weight : 34.9 g Price: $ 420 Notes: Pyramidal individual with 00% fusion crust. Has a little dirt still. Some white mineralization on a corner.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 35-1 Weight : 35.1 g Price: $ 421.20 Notes: Individual with 65% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee 38-3 Weight : 38.3 g Price: $ 459.60 Notes: Individual with 80% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee 41-9 Weight : 41.9 g Price: $ 502.80-Sold & Shipped 4/13 Notes: Beautiful individual with 100% fusion crust.	ID #: Buzzard Coulee44-5 Weight : 44.5 g Price: $ 534.00 Notes: Individual with 98% fusion crust.


WINTER STONE FINDS	The winter stones are all that I have left of the stones found immediately after the fall. They were exposed to a little rain for the week they were in the elements, but otherwise are in superior shape to the Spring Stones above.

	Left picture: Deep Freeze in situ
ID #: Buzzard Coulee3-3 The "Deep Freeze" stone Weight : 3.3 g Price: $ 5,000 Notes: Individual was found frozen in a small pond a cm under the ice. And I spent...	Back ... half and hour chiseling this out in -30C weather using only a rock as a tool. 90% fusion crust. It ain't gonna be cheap. The crust has an odd patina to it. Any ideas?

ID #: Buzzard Coulee5-5 "Proving Grounds" stone Weight : 5.5 g Price: $ 165 Front Notes: This is the stone that I found while crawling in -30C weather along a road North of the known strewn field. I was trying to prove that the strewnfield extended this far. Individual with 95% fusion crust.	Back Notes: Individual with 95% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee14-4 Weight : 14.4 g Price: $ 300 Front Notes: Neat little pebble. 90% fusion crust.	Back

ID #: Buzzard Coulee14-4 Weight : 14.9 g Price: $ 350 Front Notes: Neat little individual. 100% fusion crust. Has mud stain on back side where it landed near warm oilfield equipment. Possible hammer stone off of oil tank	Back

ID #: Buzzard Coulee21-7 Weight : 21.7 g Price: $ 435 Front Notes: 4 sided little individual. 90% fusion crust	Back

ID #: Buzzard Coulee55-1 "The Breadloaf" Weight : 55-1 g Price: $ 2100 Front Notes:Wicked oriented individual! 96% fusion crust Flow lines flow lines! Heat shield. Damn this is a sweet piece. One of a kind.	Back (needs more pictures)

Oriented Meteorites or	Really Awesome Stones


ID #: Buzzard Coulee10-2 Weight : 10.2 g Price: $ 295 Front Notes: Half stone with ...	Back ...picture perfect flowlines, and some lipping. Nifty stone. 40% crusted

ID #: Buzzard Coulee12-5b Weight : 12.5 g Price: $ 225 Front Notes: Niffty meteorite flake. Thin, high surface area to mass ratio. 50% fusion crust	Back

ID #: Buzzard Coulee12-6 Weight : 12.6 g Price: $ 226 Front Notes: individual. 95% fusion crust	Back I can't really decide if I see orientation. But it is a neat button of a meteorite.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee13-5 Weight : 13.5 g Price: $189- sold & shipped Front Notes: Some minor lipping,	Back but otherwise a nice little stone. Still has a bit of dirt streak on it from impact.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee18b Weight : 18 g Price: $270 Front Notes: No true signs of orientation, however,	it looks like a heatshield and is a neat specimen.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee19-9 Weight : 19.9 g Price: $ 505 Front Notes: Lots of lipping,	Back some flowlines, 100% fusion crust. A gem.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee20-5 Weight : 20.5 g Price: $ 287 Front Notes: In truth, this is an ugly burnt rock. However, it has a broken face on the ..	Back ...back that shows how lipping coats the backside of a stone in flight. The beginnings of secondary crust didn't get very far on the backside.
ID #: Buzzard Coulee24-8 "The Stove Pipe" Weight : 24.8 g Price: $ 992-Sold & shipped 4/13 Notes: Flow Lines Galore! This is the 2nd coolest stone I found. Heat shield, lipping, and a very	Back pronounced stove pipe on back. There is debate if the stove pipe is formed by molten rock in a stalagmite form on special oriented stones.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee24-9 Weight : 24.9 g Price: $ 405 Notes: 80% fusion crust. This has the strangest fusion crust of..	Back ...all the stones. Deep thick fusion crust on one side, triangular fusion feature on another. I really don't know what to make of this stone, but it is very interesting.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee25-8 Weight : 25.8 g Price: $567 Front Notes: Half stone with broken face. This is ONLY	Buzzard stone of the hundreds I found that was irradescent! I love these types of stones. It also has a sharp defined lipping around the irradescent bottom.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee27-6 Weight : 27.6 g Price: $497 Front Notes: 3 sided fragment.	Heavy lipping on 2 edges. 60% fusion crust

ID #: Buzzard Coulee27-8 Weight : 27.8 g Price: $700 Front Notes: Strong lipping, faint flow lines.	Back And 100% fusion crusted. Pretty pretty.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee28 Weight : 28.0 g Price: $497 Front Notes: Oriented fragment. Lipping coming around ...	Back ..over the edges of the broken face. 55% fusion crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee29-7 Weight : 29.7 g Price: $ 743 Front Notes: Oriented atypical headshield with subtle flowlines,	lots of lipping, and the congeled rock sandpaper effect on the underside of the lipping.
ID #: Buzzard Coulee35-8 Weight : 35.8 g Price: $644-Sold & Shipped Front Notes: Conical nosecone..

ID #: Buzzard Coulee36-4 Weight : 36.4 g Price: $440 Front	Back 95% fusion crust. Long and thin, no orientation, but I like it.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee38-4 "Dog's Head" Weight : 38.4 g Price: $960 Front Notes: You guessed it,	it looks like dog's head from the side and above. Two eyes, a flat mouth, even the front has a chip for the nose. .

ID #: Buzzard Coulee41-5 Weight : 41.5 g Price: $747 Front Notes: Some lipping ...	on the underside. 99% fusion crusted. Some secondary crust.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee42-9 "Flying Wing" Weight : 42.9 g Price: $ 2,000 or small tropical island Notes: OMG! This is the stone I went to Canada to find. All the others were just distractions. (Note to wife - If I die before this stone is sold, bury it with me.)	This is the absolute most wicked specimen I found. It looks like batman's plane. Thin trailing edge with flowlines all over, followed by a thick distinct lipping edge. disclosure-One chip came off in shipping and was easily reattached with superglue.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee55-8 "Bird of Prey" Weight : 55.8 g Price: $ 1,395 Front Notes: Heatshield! And the thickest lipping of all my meteorites found in Buzzard. These pictures don't do this justice, the two ...	points left and right on the first picture are pointing out and an angle. The stone kind of resembles a klingon bird of prey. Great dome shaped heatshield. (note- need more pics)

ID #: Buzzard Coulee55-8 Weight : 55.8 g Price: $ 1,395 Front Notes: Big honking headshield. Flow lines galore, Lipping...	Back ... even coalesced rock that melted and cooled like rough 80 grit sandpaper. Has 1 damn chip on front, otherwise a perfect oreiented specimen.

ID #: Buzzard Coulee80 Weight : 80 g Price: $ 1,350 Front Notes: Largest I brought back (but not found!).	This skull-cracker has grass impact stains on the bottom. Some lipping and flowlines on one side. I believe I have and in-situ shot of it on picassa. 98% crusted.