One of the benefits of growing old, if there are any, is that sometimes you forget things. Like that you have a large piece of a particular historic French meteorite from 1831 in your collection. And this happened to me recently. It all started with a for sale notification that popped up in an email. A familiar
Over the last several decades I have sent off meteorites to be classified and have a couple going through the process nearly all the time now for fun. There are some troublesome questions that come up along the way on some meteorites. It might be an instructive discussion of how some of these potential pit falls can be avoided when
I first saw this material at “Ensisheim Météorite 2008.” Luc Labenne had come down from Paris for just the day and was blowing through the show really fast. He had a few thin sections, I had a homemade viewer to check them out and I bought a couple. It’s spectacular because of the relatively large mineral grains and it is
Years ago, I had a conversation with a meteorite collector friend of mine. I mentioned the “Meteorite Farm,” and he did not know what I was talking about. I was surprised. I thought just about everyone knew about the “Meteorite Farm,” but I was wrong to assume this. Therefore, I am sharing with my friends the story about the “Meteorite
