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Issue: March, 2010

Witnessed Fall: Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA

March 1, 2010

Witnessed Fall: Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA

An March 1865 Witnessed FallThe recovered meteorites of an event that was seen by eye witnesses.: Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA Foreshadowed the Death of a President Posing with an faux antique scale cube, Vernon County rests patiently as it has in collections for almost 150 years. It is written that its fallThe recovered meteorites of [...]

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Column: Accretion Desk

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You Can Never Go Back

March 1, 2010

You Can Never Go Back

Times change and they say that you can never go back to the way it was in the past. That is certainly true about meteorite collecting. There are a few of us out in the world that remember having to be on waiting lists with dealers. We would tell them what we wanted and hope [...]

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Column: Jim's Fragments

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Evidence of Life Found in Another Martian Meteorite!

March 1, 2010

Evidence of Life Found in Another Martian Meteorite!

Another Mars rock, the Los Angeles meteorite, has fossil evidence that suggests life once existed on Mars. Researchers using Raman Spectrographic equipment (like the setup above) have found “disordered graphiteA mineral form of carbon characterized by a flat sheet like crystalline structure. It occurs in iron meteorits as blebs and nodules and abundantly in carbonaceous [...]

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Column: Bob's Findings

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IMCA Insights – March 2010

March 1, 2010

IMCA Insights – March 2010

Meteorites 101 at a Deaf School by Pete Shugar Background on Learning the Art of Sign Language It was seventh grade. Her locker was just five away from mine. She was shy. I never saw her with anyone else. I finally screwed up the mental courage and taped a note to her locker, asking for [...]

Column: IMCA Insights

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NWA 869 Inclusions

March 1, 2010

NWA 869 Inclusions

Hey Chuck, Please look for fine grained inclusions, too, when you’re slicing those NWA 869s. They look like little gray patches of unmixed Portland cement. Folks have been calling them achondritic inclusions but that might not be what they are. There’s a recurring rumor that something’s going to be published about them but I haven’t [...]

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Column: Micro Visions

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Count Guido Deiro

March 1, 2010

Count Guido Deiro

This feature is devoted each month to one of the personalities within the meteorite community. This month we are delighted to have Count Guido Deiro share the incredible story of his first meteorite find. METEORITE FIRST FIND STORY 3/3/10 12.73kg NEVADA RECORD CHONDRITE I’ve lived and worked in the Great Basin and Mohave Deserts all [...]

Column: Meteorite People

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Meteorite Calendar – March 2010

March 1, 2010

Meteorite Calendar – March 2010

Column: Meteorite Calendar

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Meteorite Spheres

March 1, 2010

Meteorite Spheres

Column: Meteorite Of The Month

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Bediasite Tear Drop Tektite

March 1, 2010

Bediasite Tear Drop Tektite

Column: Tektite Of The Month, Uncategorized

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