An April 1936 Witnessed Fall: Yurtuk, Ukraine A Double Hammer Stone! Borne from Impact on an Asteroid. Hammered a House here on Earth. To behold a howardite is to gaze upon the physical manifestation of the past and present dynamic processes of our solar system.Although howardites command some of the highest prices of the HEDs, essentially they are just
This month is going to be kind of a weird mix of topics. I may even disappoint a few people by doing something I rarely do and that is not revealing a secret. First, it came to my attention by an interested reader of a past article from a couple months ago that I had never written in Meteorite Times
We need MORE IMAGES of meteorites that are on display in MUSEUMS and PLANETARIUMS A recent discussion regarding one of my previous Bob’s Findings articles about the Fleischman Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, brought to my attention that trying to find images of meteorites and meteorite displays in museums and planetariums, even with search engines like Google, will
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Commemorating Christian Anger (1965-2009) compiled by Andrzej S. Pilski Today I received an email from Harald Stehlik, saying that our good friend Christian Anger had a very bad car accident on December 14, 2009, and he died. I am very shocked and sad, because Christian was not only a collector but a friend. Everybody knows how much fun we had
Chuck, Thank you for the baggie of NWA 869 slices. I’ve gone through them all at least twice with a 10X loupe. I found a few interesting things to show you. Some of them we talked about last time. I have to admit that it took me a while to make some of these pictures. Metal and other shiny things
