In my previous Accretion Desk article, I highlighted the inexpensive but powerful digital microscopes with built-in display screens. In this installment, let’s look at a few images captured by a digital microscope. The meteorite showcased here are near microscopic individuals of Chelyabinsk, an LL5 that fell in 2013 in Russia, Castalia, a xenolithic brecciated H5 that fell in
The first week of December I took a trip to Houston with my second daughter to visit my son and his family. We had several events planned during the trip all of which I would highly recommend to any visitor to Houston. We attended a truly wonderful performance of Dickens “A Christmas Carol” at the Alley Theater in Downtown Houston.
Meteor impact ejecta found in England has been shown to have come from the Manicouagan crater in central Quebec. The crater formation and the debris deposition have been both dated to 214 Ma, late Triassic. The age range of biotites in the sediment aligns with the age of those in the Canadian target rock. At the time of the event
December 10th brought the United States its last fall of the year. The American Meteor Society received 48 reports from across 5 states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Montana and Wisconsin, for an event at 4:05 AM local time accompanied by sonic booms. The event was recorded by multiple doorbell cameras and showed prominent fragmentation flashed. By late morning the local news
Humans have looked to the stars since the dawn of our existence. If they were lucky, they’d catch a glimpse of a streak of light slicing through the night sky. Through archeological research, we know now that these early humans would actually find these mysterious, metallic sky stones, and know that they were not of this world. In hieroglyphs, “iron”
