Even in Herd’s line of work, incidents like the meteorite strike in Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest province that lies just north of Nova Scotia — almost never come up.

come from a meteorite. Herd travelled to Prince Edward Island to check out the meteorite remnants for himself and collected some of the fragments to become part of the meteorite collection.

In July 2024, Laura Kelly and her partner Joe discovered the rock outside their home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, marking the province's first recorded meteorite fall. The meteorite left a ...