March 2013 -

The St. Michel, Finland Meteorite – A Lifetime of Breakage

By Martin Horejsi | March 1, 2013 | Accretion Desk

A July 1910 Witnessed Fall: The St. Michel, Finland Meteorite A Lifetime of Breakage Impressive breccias such as St. Michel provide obvious visual evidence of near-catastrophic injury before arriving on earth. Breccias are rocks composed of various sized visible pieces of angular rock cemented together. But that was just the beginning for St. Michel. Although its body was already

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2013 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

By James Tobin | March 1, 2013 | Jim's Fragments

This was quite an amazing year at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. We had gone with plans to get a big supply of meteorites for the next year and to have some fun. But, we had way more fun and found some really spectacular material. Our schedule was back to the regular week with all the meteorite related activities.

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Tissint Martian Meteorite

By John Kashuba | March 1, 2013 | Micro Visions

Tissint is the fifth witnessed Martian meteorite fall. It is a Shergottite. Many pieces totaling over 7 kg fell east of Tata, Morocco about 2 AM, July 18, 2011. The stones have a shiny black fusion crust which is glossier over olivine macrocrysts. Olivine macrocrysts and microphenocrysts are held in a finer groundmass of pyroxene, plagioclase (shocked to maskelynite) and other minerals. Small melt

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A folded Lei gong mo tektite

By Norm Lehrman | March 1, 2013 | Norm's Tektite Teasers

Every year after the big Tucson show, people ask : “what was your favorite tektite find ?” (We also look forward to this answer; we go to Tucson wondering what new treasure we will find!) Here it is. Tucson Tektite 2013. We spent days sorting through every box and bin of tektites we could find, piece by piece by piece.

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Meteorite Calendar – March 2013

By Anne Black | March 1, 2013 | Meteorite Calendar

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Ocotillo Meteorite – 232 grams

By Paul Harris | March 1, 2013 | Meteorite Of The Month

Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Submit Pictures to Meteorite Pictures of the Day

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Amazing Folded Lei gong mo Tektite

By Paul Harris | March 1, 2013 | Tektite Of The Month

Please see Norm’s writeup on this amazing folded Lei gong mo tektite in this month’s Norm’s Tektite Teasers

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