Tom Phillips might be best known in the Meteorite-Times universe as OG of the Micro Visions column, and for the cover image of Kevin Kichinka’s book The Art of Collecting Meteorites. Like many of us over the years, we moved from mainstream meteorite activities to a more subdued enjoyment of space rocks especially those meteorites with a unique story to
About a year ago I joined the local Gem and Mineral Society. It has been a great experience. I was needing something to do and a way to make a few friends. The field trips have been fun, and I have found a lot of rocks. No meteorites yet but hoping to do some serious hunting in the fall again
NWA 4884 is a lunar mingled basalt-rich breccia. It has both mare and highland components. It is launch paired with Antarctic meteorites QUE 94281 and Yamato 793274. They were all blasted off the moon at the same time. NWA 4884 contains spherules. The composition of the droplets in the Antarctic stones show that some are highland material and therefore the
I never imagined that the Vatican would have an observatory and meteorite collection. In 1543, Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, wrote “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” about the Heliocentric theory laying the foundation that the Sun is the center of the solar system and the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. Others had theorized this way before
