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IMCA Insights – May 2011

IMCA Insights – May 2011 How it all started – Part 2 by Anne Black & Various IMCA Members In December 2010 I asked our members for input for our IMCA Insights, and a few questions that would shed light on the different backgrounds of those members who were willing to answer. I asked: How [...]

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IMCA – April 2011

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IMCA Insights – February 2011

IMCA Insights – February 2011 The Morasko iron shower – a few scientific and ethical questions by Andrzej S. Pilski In recent years meteorite hunters, armed with modern metal detectors, raised Morasko to the position of the largest European iron shower. Despite those numerous finds our knowledge of the shower itself has not increased as [...]

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IMCA Insights – January 2011

IMCA Insights – January 2011 How it all started – Part 1 by Anne Black & Various IMCA Members In December 2010 I asked our members for input for our IMCA Insights, and a few questions that would shed light on the different backgrounds of those members who were willing to answer. I asked: How [...]

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IMCA Insights – December 2010

IMCA Insights – December 2010 Introduction to the New Board of Directors by the IMCA Board of Directors This special edition of IMCA Insights is an introduction to the new IMCA Board of Directors. The nine new and old IMCA Board Members introduce themselves in the following essays – enjoy! Martin Altmann Board Member Born [...]

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IMCA Insights – November 2010

IMCA Insights – November 2010 Munich Mineral Show 2010 by Martin Altmann Autumn – time for the big Munich Show. Together with Tucson the marker, the indicator for the meteoritical course of the following year. Warm fall winds bestowed days of sun and pushed the panorama of the Alps closer to the city. Full of [...]

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IMCA Insights – October 2010

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IMCA Insights – September 2010

IMCA Insights – September 2010 Commemorating the Schwetz Iron by Andrzej S. Pilski More than 20 years ago I started my meteorite adventure by reading a great work by Dr. Jerzy Pokrzywnicki „Meteorites of Poland” (Studia Geologica Polonica, Vol. 15, 1964). Then I visited Polish meteorite collections to learn how meteorites actually do look like. [...]

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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 [...]

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IMCA Insights – July 2010

IMCA Insights – July 2010 Ensisheim Meteorite Show 2010 by Norbert Classen Welcome to the July issue of IMCA Insights and to our second meteorite show report for this year, Ensisheim 2010. The show was opening its gates for the 11th time from June 18 to 20, 2010, and like in the last years it [...]

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IMCA Insights – June 2010

IMCA Insights – June 2010 A Meteorite Homecoming by Martin Goff The story of the Wold Cottage meteorite and the role it occupies in the history of meteoritics cannot be overestimated. This historic meteorite was one of a few famous falls on a timeline from Barbotan in 1790 culminating in L’Aigle in 1803 that led [...]

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IMCA Insights – May 2010

The Cartersville Meteorite by Dave Gheesling At about 11:00 p.m local time on March 1, 2009, a meteorite was heard when crashing through the roof of a house in Bartow County, Georgia. An extensive search of the surrounding area has been conducted by the author and several others, but no additional stones have been found, [...]

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