Come face to face with outer space in the Science Gallery’s Space Rocks exhibit, where the biggest meteorite ever found in Manitoba is on display.

“When I first found it, I brought it home and said to my wife, ‘I found a meteorite,’ just as a joke,” says 65-year-old Elm Creek resident Tom Wood. Now retired, he found the heavier-than-usual rock in autumn 1997, while working as a grader operator for the Rural Municipality of Grey. He used it to prop up his garage door for the next four years.

Little did he know that the 8.3 kilogram space rock would lead to one of his biggest adventures. Wood’s rock was an L4 chondrite meteorite, approximately 4.5 billion years old, and the size of a football. Continue reading ‘Alien at the Museum’