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 | FAQ's (View 1136)What is a meteorite?
Meteorites are unique particles of rocks, nickel-iron metal and mixtures of the two that come from outer space and reach the earth's surface. They may have traveled from the distant reaches of the solar system or even beyond.
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 | Barringer Crater  (View 836)A DIFFERENT APPROACH
Ten years later a very different sort of explorer came along. In 1902 Daniel Moreau Barringer, a successful mining engineer, heard about the crater. When he learned that small balls of meteoritic iron were randomly mixed with t... |
 | MUSEUM QUALITY METEORITE PICTURE (View 974)EXPOSITIONFULGURITES ET VERRES NATURELS"Pierre de foudre, de feu et de choc"
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Vitrine murale avec tectites/impactites et verres volcaniques
Vitrine murale avec tectites/impactites et verres vol... |
 | Glossary M (View 1570)Ma (MEGA ANNUM) - One million, 106, years.
MAFIC - Term used for silicate minerals with cations predominantly Mg and/or Fe. Mafic minerals include olivine and pyroxenes.
MAGMA - Molten silicate (rock) in the interior of a planetary body or moon. Wh... |
 | Massive Meteorite Found  (View 667)by J. Kelly Beatty
Steve Arnold loads his rare 1,400-pound meteorite into a pickup truck. The stony-iron mass, which he found buried 7 feet down using a sophisticated metal detector, might be worth more than $1 million.
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 | The Curious Case of the NASA (View 547)
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The Curious Case of the NASACrinoid Cover-Up
By Richard C. Hoagland© 2004 The Enterprise Mission
A few days ago, on Sol 33, the Martian Rover "Opportunity" was commanded to roll ... |
 | Learn about Tektites (View 336)What Are Tektites?
Tektites are made of glass--natural glass, not man-made glass. The are mostly black, but some--notably Moldavites--are green. They come in may shapes, but the most common ones resemble rounded pebbles with strange pits. Many are s... |
 | TEKTITE TESTS (View 533)Tektites vs Terrestrial Volcanic Obsidian
Firstly I would like to credit the two following pages from The Tektite Source - 'Is it a tektite?' and The Meteorite Times - 'Jim's Fragments, January 2003 - Tektite Testing'. These pages have exc... |
 | Libyan Desert Glass (View 579)Since its discovery in 1932, Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) has been a mystery which has excited the attentions of scientists - and the authors of sensational books on science "facts" - ever since.
Patrick Clayton, a surveyor with the Egyptian Geologica... |
 | Tektites (Australites) (View 386)Tektites (Australites)
Tektites are small, black blobs that might pass for hardened bits of asphalt but they are actually walnut-sized glassy stones. They commonly take on distinctive regular shapes like teardrops, dumbbells, and strangely flanged b... |
 | Space Navigator (View 322)
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2 AA & 2 C batteries required, not included Constellations are a beautiful and majestic sight, if you can find them. Don't spend countless hours trying to figure out which star is which when the Space Navigator can he... |
 | Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash' (View 1188)Hundreds of people in Peru have needed treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say.
They say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of ... |
 | Systematic Classification of Meteorites (View 716)
Systematic Classification of Meteorites
Stony Meteorites
Chondrites
Carbonaceous Chondrites
CI Group (Ivuna-Type)
CM Group (Mighei-Type)
CV Group (Vigarano-Type)
CO Group (Ornans-Type)
CK Group (Karoonda-Type)
CR Grou... |
 | The Moldavite (View 1120)
Moldavite stone is the ritual stone for integration of body, mind and spirit and can be a great catalyst for change, even if a being is simply in possession of it.
originated almost 15 million years ago, when a great meteorites hit the ear... |
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