Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. TKW 1938 grams. Fall not observed. Found 29 March 2016, Kerman, Iran. Found during the Iran-Russian expedition. Meteorite was found from a jeep. The crew consists of Timur Kryachko and Majid Khatami.
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Photo taken in 2011 at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. by Paul Swartz, IMCA 5204
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day.
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day.
Tektites – one of the most enigmatic things on Earth… by Roman Davidov from the April 2005 Issue. Tektites – one of the most enigmatic things on Earth. From a few titles, having came to us through the deep antiquity: The black stones of The God Of Thunder, fire arrows, moon or solar stones, follows the sacred beliefs of our
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day.
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Apache Junction Meteorite 102.7 grams full slice with a natural hole. AJ is a medium octahedrite, IIIAB. The 25kg mass was purchased by Carleton Moore.
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Andreas writes: Twannberg Mass #TW611 The Twannberg meteorite is chemically a rare IIG iron and structurally a hexahedrite. Ongoing scientific research shows that the Twannberg meteorite fell 200,000 years ago (+/- 20,000 years). In the absence of a widmannstätten pattern, oxidation
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Suzanne writes: This is a highly weathered, to the point of shale, iron meteorite from the Wabar Craters in Saudi Arabia. It has an incredible ‘popped’ appearance, like it has been exploded out along planes. I had a great conversation with
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. jnmczurich writes: This end section is a part of a 19 kg mass, found within the Imilac strewn field in 1986. One of the pictures shows the original impact crater with the 19 kg individual/fragment looking some few centimeters out of
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Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Click to read Doug’s amazing story of his Osceola Meteorite Find. Submit Pictures to Meteorite Pictures of the Day
Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Observed fall 2 September 2015, Bingol, Saricicek village, Turkey. Pronounced Sari-Chi-chek, meaning ‘yellow flower’. Submit Pictures to Meteorite Pictures of the Day
by Roman Davidov (revisited from the June 2003 issue of Meteorite Times) Zhamanshin. This word translated from Kazakh language like “bad soil” or “land without anything growing on it”. Firstly, peculiarity of this place noticed in 1936 by V.Vahrameev and later in 1941 by A.Yanshin. This two scientists noticed the presence of Paleozoic rocks among the field of cainosoic rocks.
