April 2011

The Cumberland Falls Falls Fall. Busy Cumbering both Science and Nature

By | | Accretion Desk

Updated: Martin Horejsi’s Meteorite Books Website An April 1919 Witnessed Fall: Cumberland Falls, Kentucky The Cumberland Falls Falls Fall. Busy Cumbering both Science and Nature   No matter how you slice it, the unique crust of Cumberland Falls looks makes individuals look like a loaf of bread. The Domesday Book written in the year 1086 contains the results of a

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Yaringie Hill

By | | Bob's Findings

The article that appeared in the 2009 November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science. When I first saw the image of the Yaringie Hill meteorite on the cover of the 2009 November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences (M&PS), I have to admit that I didn’t know that it was an Australian meteorite. But I quickly found this to be

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Talbachat n’aït Isfoul Meteorite

By | | Micro Visions

Talbachat n’aït Isfoul is an eight kilogram meteorite found in Morocco twelve years ago this month. The Meteoritical Bulletin database lists it as an LL3. You’ll see it called an LL3.7, too. Sometimes it’s called Tagounite 019. As expected with those classifications it has largish, well preserved chondrules. With a ‘scope we find a variety of things.      

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Vyatka Meteorite

By | | Meteorite Of The Month

Dark polished surface make chondrules nearly impossible to see. Further the preparer has coated the surface with a plastic, reflections of which can be seen in the lower left quarter. But, the specimen shows the distribution of metal grains often seen in H chondrites, that being numerous grains of small and mostly uniform size.      

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