Updated: Martin Horejsi’s Meteorite Books Website i i i A November 1492 Witnessed Fall: Ensisheim, France Ensisheim! The King of Meteorites Born in 1492. Christened in 1727. Baptized in 1881. The particular collecting genera in which I haunt is the intersection between science, culture and the fall of a meteorite. Using this epistemological triangulation, no other meteorite is as important
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 planned and we started toward
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 expectations and pleasant anticipation, having
I don’t think CK meteorites are much to look at except those rare slices with huge, gnarly CAI. You pretty much get dark chondrules in dark matrix. I have one fairly dense slice that someone polished which made features essentially disappear. Thankfully that wasn’t done to this slice.
