Conducted by Ron Hartman Department of Earth Sciences & Astronomy Mt. San Antonio College Collecting Near the Source Seventh in a series of introductory topics for the beginning meteorite collector! It stands to reason that the closer to the finder a meteorite can be purchased, the better will be the price. In theory, this is a valid assumption as long
Conducted by Ron Hartman Department of Earth Sciences & Astronomy Mt. San Antonio College Fifth in a series of introductory topics for the beginning meteorite collector! A nickel-iron meteorite having an octahedral crystalline structure is essentially an alloy of consisting of two phases of nickel-iron, kamacite and taenite. (The iron has already become a solid but is not yet rigid.
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Conducted by Ron Hartman Department of Earth Sciences & Astronomy Mt. San Antonio College Starting and Maintaining Your Meteorite Collection Fourth in a series of introductory topics for the beginning meteorite collector! The focus of a collection can have as many directions as there are collectors. To answer a question or solve a problem, a collector can obtain information
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Conducted by Ron Hartman Department of Earth Sciences & Astronomy Mt. San Antonio College UPDATE ON NWA METEORITE CLASSIFICATIONS Two posts of interest relating to this series have been received this month. The first is from Bob Verish who commented on the occurrence of free silica in meteorites (mentioned here only briefly last month). He comments: “Free-silica occurs as
by Ron Hartman Department of Earth Sciences & Astronomy Mt. San Antonio College Some Fundamentals of Common Chondrite Classification Third in a series of introductory topics for the new meteorite enthusiast! In our last article we discussed the process of authenticating and naming meteorites. I also suggested that we are experiencing an exciting era where meteorites are becoming commercially available
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by Ron Hartman of Ron Hartman Meteorites A METEORITE BY ANY OTHER NAME… (The second in a series of articles for the beginning collector) What do the names Brownfield (1964), S98175, NWA 860, Taza, Bensour and Oum Rokba all have in common? You’re right, absolutely nothing, but for very different reasons. And, what about those numbers like (S2) (W0) (Fa24)
by Ron Hartman of Ron Hartman Meteorites AN INTRODUCTION TO METEORITES AND METEORITE COLLECTING I. PREFACE TO THE SERIES When offered the task of writing a series on meteorites and meteorite collecting for newly interested collectors, and anyone else who May find this series of use to them, I first thought of the two Martian satellites (note the meanings of
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