From: JMMasson, France, (First visit to Ensisheim). Hello, I have so many “best” memories of the Show, but I will name 3 above all: First: meeting a grand lady of 57 kilos; despite its age and its oh-so-well known story, in print everywhere, to see it in person for the first time is an astounding way to start the show.
IMCA Insights – June 2011 A recent meteorite fall in the village of Sołtmany, Poland by Andrzej S. Pilski In a farm along a picturesque lake in the Mazurkas region of Poland, the owner woke up and opened a window, then suddenly she heard a whistling noise followed by a loud bang and crash as if the house had been
IMCA Insights – May 2011 How it all started – Part 2 by Anne Black & Various IMCA Members In December 2010 I asked our members for input for our IMCA Insights, and a few questions that would shed light on the different backgrounds of those members who were willing to answer. I asked: How did you become interested by
Every year, during the Annual Meeting, the Meteoritical Society chooses the winners of several different Awards, one of them being the Brian Mason Award, it rewards the best abstract submitted by a student to the Meteoritical Society’s Annual Meeting. It is of special interest to us because this award is sponsored by the International Meteorite Collectors Association and Meteorite Magazine.
IMCA Insights – February 2011 The Morasko iron shower – a few scientific and ethical questions by Andrzej S. Pilski In recent years meteorite hunters, armed with modern metal detectors, raised Morasko to the position of the largest European iron shower. Despite those numerous finds our knowledge of the shower itself has not increased as some finders have refused to
IMCA Insights – January 2011 How it all started – Part 1 by Anne Black & Various IMCA Members In December 2010 I asked our members for input for our IMCA Insights, and a few questions that would shed light on the different backgrounds of those members who were willing to answer. I asked: How did you become interested by
IMCA Insights – December 2010 Introduction to the New Board of Directors by the IMCA Board of Directors This special edition of IMCA Insights is an introduction to the new IMCA Board of Directors. The nine new and old IMCA Board Members introduce themselves in the following essays – enjoy! Martin Altmann Board Member Born and still living in Munich.
IMCA Insights – November 2010 Munich Mineral Show 2010 by Martin Altmann Autumn – time for the big Munich Show. Together with Tucson the marker, the indicator for the meteoritical course of the following year. Warm fall winds bestowed days of sun and pushed the panorama of the Alps closer to the city. Full of expectations and pleasant anticipation, having
IMCA Insights – September 2010 Commemorating the Schwetz Iron by Andrzej S. Pilski More than 20 years ago I started my meteorite adventure by reading a great work by Dr. Jerzy Pokrzywnicki „Meteorites of Poland” (Studia Geologica Polonica, Vol. 15, 1964). Then I visited Polish meteorite collections to learn how meteorites actually do look like. In the collection of the
IMCA Insights – August 2010 2010 IMCA Board Elections – Special Edition In the last years, many of our Members complained that they hadn’t been aware of our annual elections to the IMCA Board of Directors. It turned out that several of these Members didn’t receive our IMCA Mailing List messages, or that these messages had ended up in some
IMCA Insights – July 2010 Ensisheim Meteorite Show 2010 by Norbert Classen Welcome to the July issue of IMCA Insights and to our second meteorite show report for this year, Ensisheim 2010. The show was opening its gates for the 11th time from June 18 to 20, 2010, and like in the last years it attracted a lot of international
IMCA Insights – June 2010 A Meteorite Homecoming by Martin Goff The story of the Wold Cottage meteorite and the role it occupies in the history of meteoritics cannot be overestimated. This historic meteorite was one of a few famous falls on a timeline from Barbotan in 1790 culminating in L’Aigle in 1803 that led to the general acceptance that
The Cartersville Meteorite by Dave Gheesling At about 11:00 p.m local time on March 1, 2009, a meteorite was heard when crashing through the roof of a house in Bartow County, Georgia. An extensive search of the surrounding area has been conducted by the author and several others, but no additional stones have been found, most likely because the terrain
