Within the sovereign borders of Ukraine, over 40 meteorites have been discovered with many of them witnessed falls. Many of them now also considered historic falls and finds, with many of those also rare types. And luckily, many available for our collections. My personal collection contains about 10 different Ukrainian meteorites specimens, and at one time many more when I
Most of the readers of this article know by now that I cut a large number of meteorites during a year. I have been particularly busy lately. For the last couple of months, I have been cutting every day. I have stopped cutting for anyone else all this work is just for the Meteorite Exchange our company. I thought for
This two inch long slice was a gift from Hanno Strufe who owns one kilogram of this material with Ismaily Sidi Mohamed. Of course I immediately sent it to be thin sectioned. NWA 13937 is a lunar feldspathic breccia. Dr. Ansgar Greshake describes it as predominantly composed of lithic and mineral clasts in partly shock melted and vesicular matrix. In
I have always admired the world class Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), especially the meteorite museums and meteorite collection. The RAS was established on February 8, 1724 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It now consists of a network of over 1,000 scientific research institutes from across Russia and is now headquartered in Moscow. It combines members of the RAS who are
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The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) launched a spacecraft named Hayabusa2 (Hayabusa means Falcon) to study asteroid 162173 Ryugu on December 3, 2014. Ryugu is classified as a C-type carbonaceous asteroid. (See figure 1) Hayabusa2 arrived at Ryugu on June 27, 2018 then successfully orbited and mapped the asteroid. The spacecraft soon deployed a series of two rovers and a small
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The St-Robert meteorite fall (As if you were there) In Saint-Robert, a small village 15 km from Sorel-Tracy, as in all of southwestern Quebec, Canada, the evening of June 14, 1994, promises to be balmy and peaceful. The corn is already sown and the farmers are enjoying the good weather. At 8:00 p.m., the weather station of St-Guillaume, located 20
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