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Turbid Glass from a King: The Ipiranga Brazil Meteorite

Two days after Christmas back in 1972, a meteor headed west across the sky over southwest Paraná State in Brazil. Described as an “airplane on fire” and a “flying torch” the bright light broke up and left a trail of smoke that floated in the cloudless morning sky for more than 15 minutes. Machine guns came to mind to those […]

Chantonnay: 200 Years and One Fine Person

By Martin Horejsi | March 1, 2012 | Accretion Desk

One hundred years ago this August… a meteorite fell on the small villa of Chantonnay, France. The stone was studied throughout the next two hundred years including under the observant eye of Tschermak who described a fibrous translucent mineral within the matrix. The fibers turned out to be olivine bronzite, a compound that later became class of meteorites often referred

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