A May 1860 Witnessed Fall: New Concord, Ohio The New Concord Meteorite Let’s stop kicking a dead horse. Even if New Concord did not kill a calf, let alone hit one, this witnessed fall is a hammer anyway. Sixty-one years before John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, was born, a meteorite fell in the county of his
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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 in the world. But, this
IMCA Insights – May 2011 How it all started – Part 2 by Anne Black & Various IMCA Members In December 2010 I asked our members for input for our IMCA Insights, and a few questions that would shed light on the different backgrounds of those members who were willing to answer. I asked: How did you become interested by
NWA 5426 is a Rumuruti type chondrite. Most R chondrites show brecciation, though Rumuruti itself does not. They have a somewhat high ratio of matrix to chondrules and very little metallic nickel-iron. Chondrules tend not to be the fully melted types (barred, radial, cryptocrystalline and glassy) but, as you’ll see below, there are exceptions. Here are close-ups of a slice
This feature is devoted to personalities within the meteorite community. This month we are delighted to share an interview we had with the world famous meteorite hunting canines Brix and Hopper. How old were you when you first became interested in meteorites? I just turned three in April so I started at a very young age. I first became
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