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Issue: August, 2010

Witnessed Fall: Pirgunje, Bangladesh

August 15, 2010

Witnessed Fall: Pirgunje, Bangladesh

An August 1882 Witnessed FallThe recovered meteorites of an event that was seen by eye witnesses.: Pirgunje, Bangladesh No Next of Kin Pirgunje and its Anticedents Falling 128 years ago this month, the L6 chondrite Pirgunje reminds, us, well me anyway, why meteorites are coveted in collections.  Even thought the crust and matrixThe material of [...]

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Column: Accretion Desk

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Tektite Lamp

August 3, 2010

Tektite Lamp

  The TektiteA natural glass object formed by the melting of native rocks during some asteroidA body in our solar system composted of either metal or rock which is smaller than a planet yet larger than a meteoroid. Though the size ranges are not clearly defined and usage of the two terms overlap. impacts. Some [...]

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Column: Jim's Fragments

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Efremovka CV3

August 2, 2010

Efremovka CV3

Chuck, Just the exotic name made me want it. Efremovka. It’s a CV3 thin section and looked different so I bought it. (It wasn’t cheap.) The stone was found in Kazakhstan in 1962. Back then it was called the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The sample on the thin section is a good size and has [...]

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Column: Micro Visions

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Summer Vacation – 2010

August 2, 2010

Summer Vacation – 2010

Summer Vacation – 2010 Summer vacation is a great time to catch-up on reading about meteorites. Here is my select list of some recent abstracts. You can blame this abbreviated version of Bob’s Findings on my “summer-time schedule”. The weather this summer has been so mild, here where I live, that it is hard to [...]

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Column: Bob's Findings

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IMCA Insights – August 2010

August 1, 2010

IMCA Insights – August 2010

IMCA Insights – August 2010 2010 IMCA Board Elections – Special Edition In the last years, many of our Members complained that they hadn’t been aware of our annual elections to the IMCA Board of Directors. It turned out that several of these Members didn’t receive our IMCA Mailing List messages, or that these messages [...]

Column: IMCA Insights

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Bob Walker

August 1, 2010

Bob Walker

This feature is devoted each month to one of the personalities within the meteorite community. This month we are delighted to share an interview we had with Bob Walker of the Queensland Meteorites Interest Group’s Home Page (QMIG). Meteorite-Times (MT) What or who got you interested in meteorites and how old were you when you [...]

Column: Meteorite People

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Bensour Brecciated LL6

August 1, 2010

Bensour Brecciated LL6

Bensour Brecciated LL6 chondrite Fell February 10, 2002 at around 4:30 PM in Morocco. Images, text are Copyright © 2010 ROCKSFROMSPACE.ORG.  No reproduction without written permission. Web design by Michael Johnson of rocksfromspace.org ROCKS FROM OUTER SPACE

Column: Meteorite Of The Month

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Meteorite Calendar – August 2010

August 1, 2010

Meteorite Calendar – August 2010

Column: Meteorite Calendar

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Tektite Lamp

August 1, 2010

Tektite Lamp

TektiteA natural glass object formed by the melting of native rocks during some asteroidA body in our solar system composted of either metal or rock which is smaller than a planet yet larger than a meteoroid. Though the size ranges are not clearly defined and usage of the two terms overlap. impacts. Some tektites receive [...]

Column: Tektite Of The Month

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