Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Allende
Contributed by: Stephan Kambach
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp
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Canada's cutting-edge meteorite research a
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end next fall) by Tom Spears, Postmedia
News, June 2, 2012
Hey List,
I just got up some really rare, and some never seen on the market meteorites on
Ebay. I am more prone to just cut these down into smaller pieces after a day
or two for the ones that don't sell than to do this round in a Reverse Auction
like the last round a couple of months ago.
Hello Listers
I would like to thank everyone that submitted their answers for the POP QUIZ.
The question was:
Please tell me the meteorite sample that
Biot used to compare samples from the L'Aigle meteorite fall in 1803 in France.
Answer:
Barbotan
I would like to congratulate Mal B for
Not taking from what Pete said, lonsdalite isn't a newly identified
mineral, per se. It has been around a few years but the explanation as
to how both types of crystals formed during entry is bogus. Boron
nitrate may or may not be formed on exposure to atmospheric
nitrogen-- but it would only
Errata: Boron NITRIDE ( BN) not nitrATE (B(NO3)3)--(Bad spell
checker-- Bad, bad!)
On 7/1/12, MstrEman mstre...@gmail.com wrote:
Not taking from what Pete said, lonsdalite isn't a newly identified
mineral, per se. It has been around a few years but the explanation as
to how both types of
E Man, Pete, List,
Lonsdalite is the mineral form found in carbonados...
Not a mineralogist, even an amateur one, but the
statement that seems to say that carbonados are
made of lonsdaleite:made my nose tickle, so I went
to the consensus source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonado
Hello,
We are still slowly recovering from my Daughter's death. It is a slow process
and once again just wanted to say THANK YOU ALL for the support.
I have been able to do a little work, and here are the efforts:
Thanks,
Michael Cottingham
ALL SALE ITEMS HERE:
Hi List and hope all of your are keeping cool with the hot temps most of the
country are experiencing! My monthly July 2012 updates on my Website are now
up.
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One point of interest is The Black Hole Mystery Video of the Month called
Deadly Comets and Meteors by the History Channel. This video
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