My friends often ask me "What got you interested in meteorites?" I honestly
don't have a good answer to that question. I do, however, know precisely when
and how I was inspired to focus on carbonaceous chondrites.
As a newbie to the hobby (cough, obsession), I was reading through back issues
of Meteorite Times Magazine when inspiration struck. In a June 2011 article
about Nogoya, a CM2, Martin Horejsi wrote:
"Gazing into a polished face of Nogoya is like staring into space through
a telescope. Everywhere you look there are interesting features. Little
galaxies, nebulas, constellations, planets, suns and moons orbit the stone."
Up until that point, I'd considered CCs to be rather drab cousins to the
bejeweled pallasites, sculptural irons, and multi-chondrule'd type 3 OCs.
However as I looked at the accompanying photo in the article, I thought by
gosh, he's absolutely right. How perfect is it that a window into the black
interior of a CM2 meteorite can also be a window back out to the universe where
it originated -- if only you have the imagination to see it. You may have to
look a tiny bit deeper to see the beauty, but it's absolutely there. Anyway,
that's what first hooked me on carbonaceous chondrites. Now I have my own CM2
specimen to gaze at in wonder. So, thank you, Mr. Horejsi!
-- Michael
Michael DoranFort Worth, TX
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