by Paul Harris    (To print, first click on puzzle, then print)

May 2002 Solution

Across

2 This Austrailian crater has not produced any pure iron meteorites, only highly oxidized fragments.
5 Pallasite from the Atacama Desert
7 Meteorite the Eskimos called the Woman
9 Ordinary ____, Carbonaceous ______, R ____, E _____ (1 word fills in the blank)
12 _______, stony-iron, and irons all formed by melting on or in a parent body.
14 Presented a scientific paper to the American Philosophic Society on the existence of a meteorite crater in Arizona
15 Alloys of nickel, iron and cobalt occur in 2 structures in Nickel-Iron meteorites, Kamacite and __________
16 Country where the K-T boundry clay was found that Alvarez et al. used for 1980 paper.
19 A Book where most of the answers to these questions can be found.
20 Made up of a mixture of brokken or different rocks cemented together.

Down

1 The largest intact meteorite on Earth
3 Only town known to have 2 meteorites fall through 2 roofs, less than 2 miles apart and eleven years between.
4 Iron meteorite used as an anvil
6 Strewn field in the Eucla Basin, Austrailia where an 8 ton, 11 ton, and hundreds of smaller irons have been found.
8 CO Carbonaceous chondrite which fell in Doubs, France in which the O in CO is named after
10 Meteorite found in a Japanese Temple
11 A CM2 carbonaceous chondrite containing amino acids.
13 Meteoric sulfide present in most meteorites.
17 Most likely the parent body for Eucrites and Diogenites
18 Location of the Yogi Shergottite