A June 1879 Witnessed Fall: Nogoya, Argentina Nogoya: Cosmic Coal? ” – it must be admitted that there is a large array of arguments in favor of the existence of extraterrestrial life.” Black gold! While beauty is in the eye of the educated, Nogoya’s ancestors may have seeded the earth with the chemicals needed to speed the evolution of life
This month I undertake a long postponed task of getting my lapidary workshop organized. I had to move the large saw from my father’s garage to my garage. It seemed like a great time to begin getting the other equipment set up and placed permanently. The last time the vibrating lap was up and running was about five years ago.
Pennsylvania Meteorites in the mineral collection at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since 1941 there have been a total of eight Pennsylvania (PA) meteorites – five irons (all finds)and three L-chondrites (all falls), according to the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. Three (3) of these “PA meteorites” are in the in the mineral collection at the Carnegie Museum
IMCA Insights – June 2011 A recent meteorite fall in the village of Sołtmany, Poland by Andrzej S. Pilski In a farm along a picturesque lake in the Mazurkas region of Poland, the owner woke up and opened a window, then suddenly she heard a whistling noise followed by a loud bang and crash as if the house had been
Greg Hupé tells about his new ungrouped achondrite in this issue of Meteorite-Times so this is a good time to show close up pictures of it. Dr. Tony Irving did the classification and we learned about this stone from his Meteoritical Bulletin writeup, an abstract and phone conversations. NWA 6704 and, evidently, at least one pairing are from a previously
“Is this a meteorite?” This is the first thought I silently spoke to myself as I examined a particular greenish stone that was devoid of any apparent crust or other telltale signs of being meteoritic. Other than a 2cm ‘patch’ of what appeared to be remnant fusion crust, I could not be certain this rock was a meteorite. It resembled
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