Jürgen / jnmczurich, Author at

Author name: Jürgen / jnmczurich

Jürgen / jnmczurich is a Material Science Engineer with many years of experience in industrial research and development in the welding technology, aviation industry and ultimately also in the oil and gas industry. He has been falling victim to the meteorites since 1984, initiated by metallographic preparation work on Canyon Diablo and Toluca meteorites during his studies. To this day, he still enthusiastically works on various metallography meteorite projects on a private basis. In addition to building up his own meteorite collection (and thin section collection) through the purchase of well-known dealers and mainly university exchange and the associated self-performed sample preparation, he has often been active as a meteorite hunter in many countries, e.g. in Arizona/USA, Russia, Mongolia, Germany, Morocco, Egypt, Arabian Peninsula, Chile and other countries. For friends from the international meteorite family, he always has an open door to share experiences …

Sikhote-Alin adventure in May 1995

By Jürgen / jnmczurich | July 1, 2020 | Guest Articles

“Sikhote-Alin adventure in May 1995”, summarized for the Meteorite Times magazine I bought my first Sikhote-Alin collection sample, an explosion fragment (shrapnel) with some 270 g, from an US dealer in about 1987 or 1988 and a smooth individual sample from another source at about the same time. I was amazed to see that there were two fundamentally different types […]

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