With AI all the rage these days, and the robot overlords have yet to launch their attack on us humans, I thought I would ask ChatGPT a few basic questions about meteorites to see where we are at. But first, let me share a couple rules I have for engaging AI. My first rule is that I don’t compete with
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I have cut a great many lunar meteorites in the last couple of decades. Some as large as three kilos and 1.8 kilos to many lunar meteorites weighing hundreds of grams. I have sliced hundreds of lunar stones of just ten or twenty grams. Often on the small stones, I will get two endpieces and one or two slices
The Meteoritical Bulletin Database tells us that Gladstone (stone) is 57.3 kg of H4 found in New Mexico in 1936. A little digging unearthed more information. (There is a Gladstone (iron) found in Australia in 1915). Lang and Keil wrote the guidebook Meteorites of Northeastern New Mexico in 1976 in which they noted: Having had some success in northeastern New
Dr. John Lawrence Smith (17 December 1818 – 12 October 1883) was an American medical doctor, chemist and mineralogist. Smith also studied civil engineering and geology, which led to his first job as a civil engineer. He did not like it, so he studied medicine. After graduating with a medical degree, he went to study in Europe. Smith was in
In South Texas we’re enjoying the twentieth consecutive day of one hundred plus degrees. On days like these I find my mind wandering back more than two decades to a time when I was happy to find refuge from the noon sun in a shaded spot that was itself over 115 degrees. Pulling up Google Earth Pro to retrace the
