Way back in September of 2024, I penned an article for the Meteorite Times that I titled PreFalls! Meteorites that are meteorites before they are meteorites. The gist of it was that in a few cases, we here on earth were aware that a meteorite fall was going to happen before the space rock even entered our atmosphere. And I
PreSale of a Meteorite Parent Body PreFall: Asteroid 2024 YR4 just got real! Read Post »
Paul Harris and I have been in business for a long time. Almost thirty years selling meteorites worldwide. I have cut roughly 40,000 slices of space rock during that time. I have lapped and polished windows into thousands of additional meteorites and fragments of meteorites. From nearly the first day that we started, when I build my first saw it
We have a few thin sections of lunar olivine gabbros in our collection. They are all of the NWA 773 clan. Randy Korotev says: The NWA 773 clan is one of the most unusual of lunar meteorites. It is unlike any rock in the Apollo collection. It contains at least 5 different igneous lithologies. The total mass of these stones
Though not unprecedented, it’s not overly common for a manmade material to become a mineral. Minerals must have a natural occurring source. It is from this first found naturally occurring source that the term Type Locality is derived. In the case of Krotite, CaAl2O4 was synthetically derived before being found naturally in a CAI within NWA 1934 in 2011. Krotite
Type Locality Meteorites: North West Africa 1934 Read Post »
Erg Chech 002 (EC 002) is an ungrouped achondrite meteorite discovered in the Erg Chech region of the Sahara Desert in Algeria in May 2020. Classified as an andesite, this meteorite is believed to originate from a chondritic protoplanet that is over 4.566 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known pieces of volcanic rock in the solar
