Yellowstone National Park is an amazing place. As far as national parks in America are concerned, I find Yellowstone to be more of an amusement park filled with bizarre and fascinating and scary geology rather than a scenic park like Glacier or Arches. And as a super volcano, Yellowstone Park is an anomaly that defies continental odds, and invites millions
We are still in the aftermath of moving. My casita (workshop) is still full of unopened boxes. But my main saw for meteorite work is set up again and the diamond lap is set up. So I can get back to work soon. As it turned out the day after I wrote those first two sentences I had to cut
Falling Star An original song by Greg Stanley and Shanna O’Brien. My meteorite-hunting partner, Greg Stanley, has always had an affection for achondrites. He even admitted as much on the Meteorite-List back in 2010 July 1st, when asked, “What types of meteorites do you collect?” he wrote, “I favor Achondrites, the more exotic the better – – – I
NWA 7203 was a single 107 gram fusion crusted stone from Morocco. It was purchased by Luc Labenne in Tucson in 2011. This meteorite is a quenched angrite from a surface or near surface magma on the angrite parent body. Its texture is dendritic, a result of rapid cooling of the magma. The branches are composed of olivines and feldspar.
In this edition we conclude our survey of the classic three or four morphologies of each part of the Australasian tektite strewn field, now moving on to the world of Australites. Australites! These were the stones that ignited my passion for tektites. One of my favorite activities on this planet involves wandering the dry lakes of the Australian outback looking
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Nicolle Zellner Department of Physics, Albion College, Albion, MI, USA 48842, nzellner@albion.edu The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded world-class telescopes and astronomical instruments in Chile for decades, and the discoveries that have been made have helped to reform our views of planetary formation, black hole dynamics, and solar system processes (to name just a few). But what about meteorites?
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Tissint 120 gram individual is from a private collection and is about 98% fusion crusted. This Tissint sits up nicely for display and exhibits a nearly complete black, glassy fusion crust. Contributed by John Sinclair
