May 2023 -

“I’ll Be Back” and East Coast Meteorites: Remembering 30 years ago with Peekskill.

By Martin Horejsi | May 1, 2023 | Accretion Desk

About 100 miles separates Titusville, NJ and Peekskill, NY. So why does that matter? Well in 1992, those of us who got excited about meteorites back then were able to follow the events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite. And the Peekskill meteorite was preceded by the Peekskill fireball that was captured by no less than 16 video cameras.

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One Person’s Treasure Another Person’s Junk

By James Tobin | May 1, 2023 | Jim's Fragments

I have spent a good deal of time in the deserts of the Southwestern United States during my life. It was a favorite thing of my parents to visit and dig in the abandoned mining camps and ghost towns of California, Arizona, and Nevada. It was a family tradition that I was happy to continue as an adult. In the

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Axtell CV3 New Sections

By John Kashuba | May 1, 2023 | Micro Visions

Ten years ago we took a look at this meteorite that was found south of Dallas, Texas in 1943. Here are some photos from new thin sections, all in cross- polarized light.

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James DuPont

By Mitch Noda | May 1, 2023 | Mitch’s Universe

American James Maxime DuPont (7 April 1912 – 1 July 1991) was an industrialist and passionate meteorite collector. His father was Jean Rene Claudius DuPont, a chemist. James DuPont was the founder and chairman of Thermoplastics Inc., a producer of plastic materials for various products. Plastic means pliable and easily shaped. DuPont did not invent plastic. In 1869, inspired by

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The Fall and Hunt of the “El Sauz” Bolide

By Michael Kelly | May 1, 2023 | MeteorWriting

On 15 February 2023 at around 5:30 in the afternoon local time a small body entered the earth’s atmosphere above Texas. The American Meteor Society log of the event, 1036-2023 records only nine reports with no video or still photographs. Despite not standing out from the background of the other AMS log records, video capture of the prominent sonic boom,

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Paradox of the Newfound Lunar Meteorite and the Current Lunar Magma Ocean Model

By Yaozhu Li | May 1, 2023 | IMCA Insights

After over half a century since the last Apollo mission in 1972, the successful launch of the Artemis Mission will bring humans back to the Moon. This exciting new mission carries goals for the latest scientific discovery and economic opportunities for lunar exploration, and it also inspires the next generation of space missions to Mars. While the new

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