March 2018

The Noblesville Meteorite: A Cosmic Contrast of Young and Old

By | | Accretion Desk

Three-point-five-six meters is a pretty precise distance given cosmic measures yet it is the exact distance by which a half-kilo of space rock missed hitting pair of young boys in Noblesville, Indiana back in 1991. Image from NASA’s Exploring Meteorite Mysteries curriculum: On the last day of August, Brodie Spaulding and Brian Kenzie were standing on the Spaulding lawn when

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Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 4 No. 2

By | | Bob's Findings

Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 4 No. 2 A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. Recently there have been some promising developments in regards to finding a solution to the problem of Ordinary Chondrite (OC) finds going unreported, and undocumented, and unclassified. In short, they end up “lost to history”. (Clarification: for the purpose of this discussion, it is

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NWA 2798 L3.2

By | | Micro Visions

As might be expected, NWA 2798 L3.2 contains large, well defined chondrules and dark matrix. It also displays quite a variety of barred olivine features – coarse and fine, simple and otherwise. These thin section photos are from just two slides. The first six are from one and are all at the same scale with the fields of view 3.1

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