An October 1852 Witnessed Fall: Borkut, Ukraine The Borkut Meateorite: More Chondrite, Less Fat Early comparisons of the Borkut meteorite to others of the time led some scientists to conclude that Borkut had a higher chondrite to matrix ratio. This uncut face of Borkut shows the chondrule-rich landscape, yet not unlike a conglomerate sedimentary rock found here on earth. How
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 all the changing rules about
Bill Cassidy shares some of his pictures from the Campo del Cielo strewn field taken in the 1960’s. During a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week, I stopped-in at University of Pitt to pay a visit to Professor Emeritus Bill Cassidy. It was a treat to talk to him about his work in the early days with
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It’s worth a few minutes to peruse a howardite just for the textures – viewing it in hand or with a loupe or ‘scope like we do here. Howardites are the compacted soil of the asteroid Vesta. They are a mixture of fragmented rock that has been excavated – from both shallow and deep – mixed and lithified by impacts.
