After 600 hours of work, the search for additional pieces of the Lost City meteorite was called off. Four fragments had been recovered with a total weight of 17 kg. And that’s where the story both ends and begins. In 1962, an array of 16 cameras of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Meteorite Photography and Recovery Project, also known as the
Hey Lost City Meteorite, Smile! You’re on Camera. Read Post »
The strangeness of 2020 continues and I am spending most of my time at home. About the only meteorite related stuff happening to me is whatever happens in the lab. I work nearly every day on meteorites or tektites. The next hunting trip to the desert is still a while away, so this article will be different from many. I
Ozerki fell June 21, 2018 in Lipetsk oblast, European Russia, about 240 miles south of Moscow. More than a hundred stones were found totaling over 10kg. It is an L6 ordinary chondrite. Various shock levels are reported. The stone from which our thin section was made has been strongly shocked. It is a breccia of L6 clasts within solidified melt.
Ever since I started collecting meteorites my interest in the history and stories surrounding the specimens has been a prime motivator for what I would add to my collection. As a result, I have made the acquisition of worshiped or otherwise supernaturally idealized meteorites a motivating factor for what I collect. It so happens that one of the most interesting
“Sikhote-Alin adventure in May 1995”, summarized for the Meteorite Times magazine I bought my first Sikhote-Alin collection sample, an explosion fragment (shrapnel) with some 270 g, from an US dealer in about 1987 or 1988 and a smooth individual sample from another source at about the same time. I was amazed to see that there were two fundamentally different types
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day.
