# Meteor strike in Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783 "2008-11-21T04:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/41 "2008-11-26T21:36:59Z")
Of course, didn’t you know ? Governments are desperate for revenues. Anything for a buck. Of course, with a license, you will have to have a meteorite hunting season, and fines if you bag one out of season. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/42 "2008-11-27T00:59:47Z")
I saw it! Or at least the flash. It crashed near the alberta, saskatchewan border very close to my town apparently. Look at my hometown in the corner. God missed I say! I think he was trying to smite my shit hole home. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/43 "2008-11-27T01:24:28Z")
When I first read the thread title, my thought was, “Canadian meteors got unions!? What the hell!?” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/44 "2008-11-27T04:29:17Z")
> [@Sunrazor](#): > > When I first read the thread title, my thought was, “Canadian meteors got unions!? What the hell!?” It’s our socialist government. Next we’ll be organizing the pro-gravity movement. ---
**Author:** ![Jaglavak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jaglavak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaglavak)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/45 "2008-11-27T07:36:38Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > Are these numbers accurate? You’d think something would be visible on Google Maps satellite imagery. The 9-mile-deep part is what I’m having trouble with. > > The whole Sudbury area does look kind of bare when you zoom out. Is that area what they’re referring to? And why doesn’t it fill up with water? The [Sudbury Basin.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Basin) is the oval shaped depression visible south and west of the lake in this picture. The crater was initially 9 miles deep but today it looks like a valley. Not real easy to see, but it’s about 5 times wider than the lake. I’m sure after the lava cooled it did fill with water, but most of it has since filled with sediment. Fortunately, all that happened a loooong time ago. The reason Sudbury looks bare is because it’s part of the [Canadian Shield](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield), which is a mashup of really old rocks with most of the topsoil scraped off during the ice ages. Rocks are cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/46 "2008-11-29T09:26:02Z")
[Pic of a hunk of it in a pond at Buzzard Coulee.](http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/28/meteorite.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/47 "2008-11-29T15:05:16Z")
Buzzard Coulee? I thought I was familiar with all the goofy obscure placenames in this province. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783.md?page=2)