A lone shooting star graced the evening sky of the Lone Star state back in 1909, one of only two witnessed meteorite falls that year. Normally the excitement of a fireball would make the news and keep the conversations animated at the local diner, but not this time. The simple reason for barely a mention in the local press was
Over the last twenty-five years, I have cut a great many Allende stones. In the last month, I have cut a 600+ gram stone and a nearly 300 gram stone of Allende into 60 or so slices. Allende is easily in my top ten favorite meteorites for visual interest as far as chondrules. The slices come off the saw not
Erg Chech 002 Achondrite-ung was found in the sand dunes of southwest Algeria in May 2020. Stones range in size from pebbles to a few weighing in the 4 kilogram range. Total weight could be about 45 kilograms. Classification was done by Tony Irving, University of Washington (Seattle), Paul Carpenter at Washington University (St. Louis) and Karen Ziegler at University
The year 1969 was a pivotal point in the history of space science. The Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite fell on February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua Mexico, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, and the Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite fell on September 28, 1969 in Victoria, Australia. Sandwiched between all these incredible events was the Woodstock Music
This November 2020 is the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Gold Basin strewn field. I doubt that anything will be organized with the virus still around but Jim Kriegh will be in many thoughts around the world. Below is the YouTube with some photos which will further explain this Gold Basin story. A meteorite hunter friend put my
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