CALGARY -- Researchers are hoping someone has a photograph or video of the biggest meteor to fall in Alberta in 40 years so they can tell where it landed.

Alan Hildebrand, a planetary scientist at the University of Calgary, says the meteor was an asteroidal fragment that weighed five to 10 tonnes, about 1.5 meters in diameter.

Hildebrand says it was travelling at roughly 20 kilometres per second and this was probably the biggest rock to fall on Alberta since 1960.''

The flaming rock was seen streaking north across the Alberta sky near the British Columbia boundary on October 14th at around 2:20 a.m.

It exploded over the northern part of Banff National Park with a deafening boom that could be heard 150 kilometers away.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing hundreds of pieces of the rock falling to the ground, however, freshly fallen snow may delay the hunt for particles until next spring.

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