Unlike other meteorite craters, the largest of famous Henbury iron meteorite craters formed when the giant lizard-woman named Mulumura dug down through the Australian soil throwing out iron fragments and lines of orange dirt in what would later be called ejecta forming the rays around the 180 meter-wide depression. Wisely, other Aboriginal people would not camp near the crater for
It had been a few years since the last time that Paul Harris and I went to Franconia to hunt meteorites. But we were going with some old friends and new friends in the middle of April which we hoped would still be a cooler time of the year. Well, it turned out to be hot and much hotter than
DaG 1040 CV3 contains a lot of metal and a variety of large chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions. Here is a selection of smaller objects, all found in a single thin section. The largest is a one half millimeter diameter chondrule. All photos were taken in cross-polarized light.
I thought this article was going to be easy, but things took a bad turn when I realized there is a lot about dumbbells I don’t understand. Even really basic stuff, like why the double “b”? Totally unnecessary. (All the dictionaries I checked think that I am wrong, so “dumbbell” it is.) By way of introduction, the dumbbells of which
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. New classified fall named Ksar El Goraane. TKW 4 kg. Observed fall 28 October 2018, Draâ Tafilalet, Morocco. Contributed by Hanno Strufe, IMCA 4267
