The 2020 pandemic has made most of us consider our mortality, and sadly, many discovering it firsthand. As a young (or old) 57 years of walking this planet, I’ve had a partner in Karatu, a meteorite that fell in my birth year of 1963 on the opposite side of the world. Both Karatu and I were non-existent on earth the
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I don’t add very many meteorites to my collection anymore. Maybe five or six meteorites a year. Of that number, a couple of meteorites are stones I partner with Jason Phillips to buy and get classified. Just as the virus was getting going in March 2020, we arranged to purchase a 15kg stone. It would be the largest piece in
Northwest Africa 2833 was a single 2,112 gram stone purchased in Erfoud, Morocco in 2005. It was classified as an L3.8 ordinary chondrite, S2, W3 by Wittke and Bunch and published in 2006.
In February 2019, I went to the Tucson Gem and Mineral show to meet some friends. Afterwards, I visited my good friend Dr. Carleton Moore at Arizona State University (“ASU”) and he introduced me to Dr. Laurence Garvie, Collection Curator for the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies, then we all went inside ASU’s meteorite vault. It was an honor and
