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Meteorite Care
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:02 PM
Views: 6352
With a few notable exceptions meteorites have iron in metallic form as part of their composition. On Earth native iron is truly rare, the moisture and oxygen in the atmosphere quickly convert metallic iron into iron oxide. Well let's make it simple: rust. So meteorites with metallic iron need to be protected from moisture. In most cases...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:02 PM
Views: 6352
With a few notable exceptions meteorites have iron in metallic form as part of their composition. On Earth native iron is truly rare, the moisture and oxygen in the atmosphere quickly convert metallic iron into iron oxide. Well let's make it simple: rust. So meteorites with metallic iron need to be protected from moisture. In most cases...
Hunting Meteorites In Franconia Arizona
Category: Meteorite Hunting
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:01 PM
Views: 1380
Category: Meteorite Hunting
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:01 PM
Views: 1380
In late October you may have noticed that we put up a notice on our meteorites-for-sale.com site that we would be out of town for a week. We had not spent more that a day here or there hunting meteorites for a while so we took...
Meteorite Tools of the Trade
Category: Meteorite Hunting
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:01 PM
Views: 1837
Meteorites have some features in their makeup that allow the hunter to use simple and fancy tools in the search. Nearly all meteorites have some nickel-iron in them. So magnets and metal detectors are very useful in helping to find them.
Category: Meteorite Hunting
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:01 PM
Views: 1837
Meteorites have some features in their makeup that allow the hunter to use simple and fancy tools in the search. Nearly all meteorites have some nickel-iron in them. So magnets and metal detectors are very useful in helping to find them.
Moon Meteorites and Mars Meteorites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:01 PM
Views: 2368
It seems that when the discussion of Martian and Lunar meteorites comes up two questions are always asked. First how do they get to Earth? And secondly, how do you know they are from the Moon or Mars...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 09:01 PM
Views: 2368
It seems that when the discussion of Martian and Lunar meteorites comes up two questions are always asked. First how do they get to Earth? And secondly, how do you know they are from the Moon or Mars...
Canyon Diablo Iron Meteorites
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 06:56 PM
Views: 1515
49,000 years ago a small iron asteroid plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere. And though it was small in astronomical terms it created a crater three quarters of a mile across. Scattered around the crater were found starting in the 18802s hundreds of chunks of meteoritic iron. As the years passed...
Category: Meteorite Information
Posted: Sep 2, 2010 06:56 PM
Views: 1515
49,000 years ago a small iron asteroid plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere. And though it was small in astronomical terms it created a crater three quarters of a mile across. Scattered around the crater were found starting in the 18802s hundreds of chunks of meteoritic iron. As the years passed...
Meteor Right or Meteor Wrong
Category: Meteorite Identification
Posted: Sep 1, 2010 09:05 PM
Views: 3946
Category: Meteorite Identification
Posted: Sep 1, 2010 09:05 PM
Views: 3946
How do you know that a rock that you have found is a meteorite or not?
Meteorites have some characteristics that allow us a short list of easy tests to get started on their identification. See if you rock has any of these features and if it does you may be on your way to having discovered a new rock from space...Your Cart
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