As I was doing some spring cleaning during our first Montana winter blizzard, I found a bag of meteorites labeled at Oum Rokba. Further, there was a polished complete slice with an accompanying specimen card from the Ron Hartman collection. It gave me pause since I knew Ron Hartman had passed on over a decade ago, and Oum Rokba was
Old Woman’s Knee, Ron N. Hartman, and NWA 400 Meteorites Read Post »
I love Allende meteorites. They are a famous CV3 carbonaceous and a favorite of mine. And after forty years of meteorite lapidary work I have cut many kilos of Allende making hundreds and hundreds of slices. It is chondrule packed and has chondrules of all sizes and colors. It has fantastic CAIs sometimes too. But one thing that Allende as
The Gao-Guenie fall in 1960 produced many oriented stones. I bought this small one from Marcin Cimała and had it thin sectioned.
UCLA Meteorite Museum In August 2017, I scheduled a visit to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Meteorite Gallery (Museum) and a meeting with my friend, Dr. Alan Rubin, Curator of the UCLA Meteorite Museum. It had been decades since I stepped foot on the campus of UCLA. I remember it being a large beautiful campus when I
UCLA Meteorite Museum and Alan Rubin, John Wasson and Frederick Leonard Read Post »
Dear solar system, if you want to keep disrupting my writing plans … you go right ahead! It has been quite the year so far for United States falls. I certainly am not complaining, as I love to see fresh meteorites as much as the next person. This is the third bolide over the United States so far in 2022
Junction City Georgia Fall : Technological And Social Aspects Of The Hunt Read Post »
Noemi Mészárosová1,2 1 Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague 2, CZ-12843, Czech Republic. 2 Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 269, Prague 6 – Lysolaje, CZ-16500, Czech Republic. As enstatite-rich meteorites, we (scientists) refer to meteorites from distinct clans, although they share some common characteristics. Enstatite-rich meteorites include enstatite chondrites
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