One hundred years ago this August… a meteorite fell on the small villa of Chantonnay, France. The stone was studied throughout the next two hundred years including under the observant eye of Tschermak who described a fibrous translucent mineral within the matrix. The fibers turned out to be olivine bronzite, a compound that later became class of meteorites often referred
Not to dispute the old saying, that time flies. But, it just moves along. It is we that have a changing perception from day to day or year to year. But, time itself passes at a constant rate. Unless, I am badly mistaken this is the last month of year ten of Meteorite Times. I think Paul and I realized
The Whitmire (South Carolina) Bolide of February 13th 2012 The search for meteorites from this fireball-meteor still continues. Meteor makes headlines in The Whitmire News! (Wasn’t really a “meteor shower”, but hopefully, it was a meteorite shower;-) Continuation of front-page article on page 2. (Actually, this was a better than average news article, compared to other “meteor” articles that
Paul V. Heinrich Louisiana Geological Survey Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Within Texas, credible proposals have been made for the extraterrestrial impact origin of six geological structures. Convincing cases have been made for three of these structures, i.e. Marquez structure (Leon County), Odessa crater (Ector County), and Sierra Madera (Pecos County), of being of impact origin (Gibson 1990;
The Mysterious Hico Structure, Hamilton-Erath Counties, Texas Read Post »
NWA 5958 C3.0-ung was 286 grams of fragments. We bought a fragment from Greg Hupé and had thin sections made from it. The Met Bull entry and two papers are here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=50844 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/2343.pdf http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/2325.pdf
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