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Meteorites at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles

October 1, 2011

Meteorites at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles

The last time I had been to the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles was about 30 years ago. My wife and I have been trying to take our grandchildren and their parents on some outings during the summer. When the new Dinosaur Exhibit opened at the museum we thought that would be fun. So [...]

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Unclassified Beauty

September 1, 2011

Unclassified Beauty

Middle of the summer is always the time when we stay home and avoid the heat of the dessert. But, have no fear we will get back out and hunting in the fall. So I have been spending a lot of time cutting meteorites and that has been great fun. I had been having a [...]

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Tektite Testing Revisited

August 1, 2011

Tektite Testing Revisited

At least a couple times a year I receive specimens from someone who thinks they have found tektites at a new location. Often it is somewhere in Arizona or Utah. So this month we are reviewing the differences between tektites and other natural glasses. Sometimes the finders have some knowledge of locations where non tektites [...]

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Unclassified Meteorites

July 1, 2011

Unclassified Meteorites

I have for many years had an up-to-date database of my officially recognized meteorites. And I maintain that very carefully adding each new acquisition as soon as possible after it arrives. However, I have not done so with my unclassified meteorites. I have painted identification information on many of them. It is a code that [...]

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Garage Make Over

June 1, 2011

Garage Make Over

This month I undertake a long postponed task of getting my lapidary workshop organized. I had to move the large saw from my father’s garage to my garage. It seemed like a great time to begin getting the other equipment set up and placed permanently. The last time the vibrating lap was up and running [...]

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The Real Rocks at Reality Rocks

May 1, 2011

The Real Rocks at Reality Rocks

In general, I am about as far from being a reality TV fan as a person can get. I watch mostly the channels on history and science and my sci-fi movies of course and that is it. Ask me about the news and I can barely tell you a thing about what is going on [...]

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Surprises In Unclassified Meteorites

April 1, 2011

Surprises In Unclassified Meteorites

Even with the diminishing supply of nice unclassified NWA material showing up at Tucson year by year I was able to find some pretty nice stones at the last show. I thought that this month you might be interested in seeing what these mystery stones turned out to look like when I got them home [...]

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Meteorite Hunting Book Review

March 1, 2011

Meteorite Hunting Book Review

I have done book reviews before. Usually the only characters in the books are meteorites or tektites. In this case Meteorite Hunting How To Find Treasure From Space I know almost every character mentioned in the book. That made it very special for me, but by the end of the reading it was clear that [...]

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Tucson Show 2011 Recap

February 1, 2011

Tucson Show 2011 Recap

Well another Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has come and gone. I went this year with a lot of other concerns on my personal plate. But, it turned out to be a great time for me and I was for the most part able to forget the other stuff for a few days. Paul and [...]

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Newly Found Craters Compared

January 1, 2011

Newly Found Craters Compared

It isn’t every day that a new crater is discovered on the Earth but we have been very fortunate that several have been found in the couple years that had meteorites associated with them. The similarities of the meteorites found at Gebel Kamil and Whitecourt is going to be my topic this month. The physical [...]

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The Ravages of Time

December 1, 2010

The Ravages of Time

Iron shale was once the most common meteoritic material to be seen around the area of Meteor Crater. But, after way more than a century of collecting not very much is left of the interesting by-product of the ancient meteorites. Typically, pieces of iron shale are flat plates of hard black magnetic rock. The metallic [...]

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Franconia Vacation 2010

November 1, 2010

Franconia Vacation 2010

I decided this year that I would not work right up to the day before we left for vacation. So Saturday was my last day of work and I got to do some resting up and leisurely packing before we headed to the desert on Wednesday morning. Paul arrived just about exactly when we had [...]

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October 1, 2010

Vacation 2010

On Vacation Soon we’ll be off on vacation. We thought hard about where to go and what we wanted to do this year. And the end of all that thought was summed up in the word “veg” we are just going to go out and sit all day if we want and do nothing. With [...]

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The End of Summer

September 1, 2010

The End of Summer

As we near the end of summer it is always time for Paul and I to plan the first trip to the cooler autumn desert. And we have begun that process. We do not know where we are going but we have picked the date and put in for the time off from work. We [...]

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Tektite Lamp

August 3, 2010

Tektite Lamp

  The Tektite Lamp My article this month is maybe the one of the best examples of the convergence of hobbies that I have ever shared. It was actually well over a year ago that this all happened but I have just not be sure that I wanted to say anything about it. As I [...]

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