January 2020

Birds, Barks and Belfast: The Bovedy Meteorite 50 Years Later

By | | Accretion Desk

Last April marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of the Bovedy meteorite, but with all the 50 year celebrations in 2019 including the first moon landing, its easy to understand how the Golden Anniversary of Bovedy could slip through the cracks. Fortunately, the BBC remembered Bovedy’s birthday, as they should: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48023047 The arrival of Bovedy is filled with glorious

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The Wonders of Tektite Skin Splits

By | | Norm's Tektite Teasers

As I prepared to write this article, it was my intention to flash through a series of tektite ornamentation images accompanied by minimal text. I made it all the way to the first photo before breaking my vows and changing my title. The ancient Chinese called these strange starburst patterns” Dragon Tracks”. They are thin-skinned collision features that formed at

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The Rise of the Raj and the Fall of Shergotty – Conclusion

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“Look! Brahmins and Chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters – all the world going and coming. The Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen  hundred miles – such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world.” So proclaimed Rudyard Kipling of India’s main

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Initial Identification of Extraterrestrial Amino Acids in the Aguas Zarcas CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrite

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A large fireball was witnessed on April 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m. local time by residents in Costa Rica.   As the meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere, it broke apart and deposited meteorites centered upon the small town of Aguas Zarcas.   Early reports indicated that this meteorite belongs to a special group called carbonaceous chondrites which are typically rich in

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