“Then came a flash so brilliant that you could not see anything and it lit up everything bright as day. Then came the explosion after the light faded out, which shook the house with such force that the windows and dishes rattled.” -Emil Grigoleit of Hines Creek, Alberta, Canada. There are many shocking things about the fall of the Peace
It has been exciting several months. I have done a great amount of meteorite cutting for our business and a couple friends. I have been finding as I cut that what the friends thought they had was not always what I found at the saw. The most enjoyable of these fortunate mistakes was a batch of stones that were supposed
Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 4 No. 3 A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. When it comes to meteorite-hunting you don’t always get to chose what days you can go and hunt. Sometimes the weather is so bad you simply have to postpone and make other plans. But sometimes, there is a change in the weather for the
Ahmed Pani was selling this brecciated L chondrite in Tucson in February 2017. The mineral dealer from Vienna had one slice with a distinct dark clast that I should have bought. Luckily he had a similar slice available when we saw him at the Munich show in October. It turned out to be beautiful in thin section. The dark clast
Thermal ablation effects are the hallmark of Australites. Nearly all show them in some variation. Cores form as the incandescently-hot frontal surface expands and flakes explosively detach from the sides and front. In the following image, the flight direction was towards the top. All are classic Australite cores with well developed flake scars. A few reported examples of thermally-ablated tektites
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Vaca Muerta Mesosiderite A-1 contributed by Holger Pedersen.
