First, let me say that it’s really great to be here. Frankly, it was getting pretty nip-and-tuck as the fuse on 2012 burned short, but as we all discovered, 2013 arrived on schedule and in like-new condition. So now we can all shift our attention to the next world-ending event. If you are like me and enjoy having constant reminders
Hamlet: An Eye for an Eye. A Satellite for a Stone. Read Post »
Going up the 17 freeway after leaving the opening of “They Came from Space” Geoff Notkin’s exhibition at the Challenger Center in Phoenix would take us to Flagstaff, Arizona. I had a rental 4×4 waiting at the Pilliam Municipal Airport. We would need it for the next leg of our trip. We arrived only about 15 minutes early at the
2012 Year-end Review A recap of the past year’s events and findings. Well, it’s that time of year, where we take time to reflect on the events of 2012, and in the process we can make predictions, or at least, better resolutions for the coming year. 2012 January- Nevada meteorites The year 2012 starts off on the right foot
2012 Year-end Review A recap of the past year’s events and findings. Read Post »
Every year I visit Mineralien Tage in Munich to meet meteorite friends and, above all, see many new meteorites. There are hundreds of tables with tons of minerals, jewelry, and fossils. Among them on these tables are hidden meteorites. This year I am again seeing much less material than in previous years. Many people were missing and the usually well-represented
A 6.2 kg stone was found in 1943 by a man cultivating a cotton field three miles south of Axtell, Texas. The family kept it until 1993 when it was bought by Blaine Reed and distributed. Except for some coloration from terrestrial weathering, it appears very similar to Allende. Close study shows that they are not paired. Axtell belongs to
I was recently forwarded a journal article dealing with tektite shapes (Stauffer & Butler, 2010) in which it is postulated that toroid-like (doughnut-like) forms are a logical end-point of radial flow and consequent central-thinning of a tektite disk spinning like a frisbie. A torus is to a revolving spheroid what teardrops are to rods and dumbbells. These authors do not
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