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Meteorite Identification - Found A Meteorite?
Category: Meteorite Identification
Posted: Apr 2, 2012 12:51 AM
Views: 14078
Category: Meteorite Identification
Posted: Apr 2, 2012 12:51 AM
Views: 14078
You have been to the desert or river or perhaps even your backyard and found a rock that is unusual. You think that it might be a meteorite. Here is some simple information about meteorites and meteorite identification to help you get started on finding out for sure. Like the old saying a picture is worth a thousand words. The meteorite photographs here and elsewhere on the internet should be of assistance in determining if it is a meteorite or meteor-wrong.
Tektite Testing
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 15, 2010 08:59 PM
Views: 3170
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 15, 2010 08:59 PM
Views: 3170
We get quite a few emails from people who think they've found a tektite. Jim wrote an article for our Meteorite-Times online magazine about tektite testing a few years ago. If you think you've found a tektite then please read this tektite article.
Tektite Lamp
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 4, 2010 09:00 PM
Views: 2447
Jim wrote a wonderful article in the August issue of Meteorite-Times Magazine about the Tektite Lamp he handcrafted out of Indochinite Tektite pieces from The Darryl Futrell Collection of Tektites.
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 4, 2010 09:00 PM
Views: 2447
Jim wrote a wonderful article in the August issue of Meteorite-Times Magazine about the Tektite Lamp he handcrafted out of Indochinite Tektite pieces from The Darryl Futrell Collection of Tektites.
Tektites – Out of this World Natural Glass
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:04 PM
Views: 1700
Tektites are collected for their unique shapes and textures as natural oddities. They are glass. They are however, not glass like any other natural glass found on Earth. They form when asteroid hit the Earth and melt the rocks...
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:04 PM
Views: 1700
Tektites are collected for their unique shapes and textures as natural oddities. They are glass. They are however, not glass like any other natural glass found on Earth. They form when asteroid hit the Earth and melt the rocks...
Nothing Ordinary About Ordinary Chondrites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:04 PM
Views: 3609
The large meteorites seen in museums are often made of nickel iron. That might give one the impression that most meteorites are solid metal. But, the fact of the matter is that most meteorites are made of stone...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:04 PM
Views: 3609
The large meteorites seen in museums are often made of nickel iron. That might give one the impression that most meteorites are solid metal. But, the fact of the matter is that most meteorites are made of stone...
Meteorite Collecting
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 4478
We humans are a species of collectors. Ancients things, new things, art, and oddities are all collected. Included in that list are meteorites. But, why do we collect them? One reason is that meteorites are the rarest of objects on our planet. Far rarer than...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 4478
We humans are a species of collectors. Ancients things, new things, art, and oddities are all collected. Included in that list are meteorites. But, why do we collect them? One reason is that meteorites are the rarest of objects on our planet. Far rarer than...
Tektite Shapes
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 1733
Take a large piece of rock moving very fast and slam it into the Earth and you can make a crater, release tremendous energy, and kill everything for miles around. But, you probably will not make tektites. These peculiar pieces of natural glass...
Category: Tektite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 1733
Take a large piece of rock moving very fast and slam it into the Earth and you can make a crater, release tremendous energy, and kill everything for miles around. But, you probably will not make tektites. These peculiar pieces of natural glass...
What Is So Special About Meteorites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 1585
The Earth’s mass is 6,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 kilograms, roughly speaking and that is a lot of kilos. But tomorrow it will be just a little greater. Because today like everyday some rocks...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 1585
The Earth’s mass is 6,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 kilograms, roughly speaking and that is a lot of kilos. But tomorrow it will be just a little greater. Because today like everyday some rocks...
It was a Bad Day to be in Arizona
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 1442
Imagine a grass covered expanse with creatures both savage and exotic. Its 49,000 years ago and the North American Continent is in a brief interglacial period of warmth. This warmth has created a lush environment for Woolly Mammoths...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:03 PM
Views: 1442
Imagine a grass covered expanse with creatures both savage and exotic. Its 49,000 years ago and the North American Continent is in a brief interglacial period of warmth. This warmth has created a lush environment for Woolly Mammoths...
Where Have All The Meteorites Gone?
Category: Meteorite Hunting
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:02 PM
Views: 2202
One of the first questions asked of a meteorite hunter is “where do you go to hunt them?” The simple answer is they fall everywhere randomly so you could possibly find them anywhere. But, in reality there are many factors that make hunting meteorites in certain places better and other places impossible.
Category: Meteorite Hunting
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:02 PM
Views: 2202
One of the first questions asked of a meteorite hunter is “where do you go to hunt them?” The simple answer is they fall everywhere randomly so you could possibly find them anywhere. But, in reality there are many factors that make hunting meteorites in certain places better and other places impossible.
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