For those of us with an above average enthusiasm for meteorites, the traditional rock shop is often devoid of the very rocks we crave. Yet we continue to search their offerings in hopes a space rock somehow entered their inventory. And when desperation finally sets in, we resort to asking the question of the proprietor, “Do you have any
Meteorites at the Rock Shop: Columbine of Aspen is Breathtaking! Read Post »
I took a three-week driving trip around the country in June. I did some camping, and I stayed in hotels part of the time. If the cities I stayed in had museums, I tried to visit some of them. Of course, I was interested in any meteorites that I happened to see in the museums. I decided to drive the
Calama 074 is a 17 gram oriented ordinary chondrite found in October 2018 by Ilya Kryachko on a limestone plateau 40 km east of the city of Calama, Chile. Calama is in the Atacama desert at 2,260 m elevation. Average annual rainfall quotes differ wildly. Wikipedia gives 5 mm with no citation. Sources say that no rain at all fell
In 1825, George Cuvier, a zoologist deemed the “founding father of paleontology,” first observed a mass extinction of animals between the Mesozoic and Cenzoic eras. In the rock records, there was no evidence of dinosaurs above the K-Pg boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary layer. The K-T boundary is the transition and abbreviation for the Cretaceous period and
The Dinosaur killer – Chicxulub (pronounced “Cheek” – “shoe” – “lube”) Read Post »
This is the second installment on a series that focuses in on meteorites that bear the title of type locality. Be that of an entire grouping of meteorites in the overarching classification scheme or just a new mineral or two never before observed by science. Suizhou is by class quite inconspicuous. After all its one of 12,364 classified L6s,
Geoff Notkin Star of the hit television series “Meteorite Men” is once again working with Heritage Auctions Nature and Science Department on the Geoff Notkin Collection Auction Part Two. Geoff has traveled far and wide on Earth in search of space rocks. Geoff has amassed a fantastic collection of meteorites and related items. Many of these wondrous natural treasures
