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 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:09:51 -0700 |
| Santa Fe once destroyed by ancient meteorite |
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A large meteorite smashed into what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, some million or billion years ago. Now scientists are trying to determine exactly when this life-killer hit. Space.com reports that geologists are studying the impact crater in detail to determine its size and moment of earth-shattering impact.
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| Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:15:56 -0700 |
| Odessa meteor crater expert dies |
Glen L. Evans, a prominent geologist who was in charge of exploration of the Odessa Meteor Crater from 1939 to 1941, died July 14.
He completed a publication in 2000 with Charles "Gene" Mear titled, "The Odessa meteor craters and their geological implications" in the "Occasional Papers of the Strecker Museum, No. 5" at Baylor University.
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| Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:12:50 -0700 |
| Meteorites and minerals planned for New Mexico mineral museum |
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A new mineral museum project is planned to commence in rural New Mexico in late 2010. The John H. Eicher Mineral Museum will be constructed at Granite Gap, a short distance north of Animas, New Mexico,
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| Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:48:12 -0700 |
| Meteorite crater discovered in Egypt |
There have only been 176 confirmed impact craters on Earth, but this one, called Kamil, is one of the best-preserved.
It measures 45m wide and 16m deep and was first noticed on Google Earth images in 2008 by Vincenzo de Michele, former curator of the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale, in Milan, Italy.
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| Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:17:04 -0700 |
| Meteorite Information Links Directory |
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The public is welcome to post interesting meteorite and tektite sites to this new meteorite links directory informational site.
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| Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:46:22 -0700 |
| Meteor Man |
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Ernst Chladni, the man who proved stones really do fall from the sky
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| Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:15:00 -0700 |
| Research Yields Greater Precision in Age of Meteorites |
Researchers have aged dated a very important group of meteorites with far greater precision than previously possible by using a different type of radioactive dating on a particularly difficult type of specimen to study.
The project found that the asteroid from which ureilite meteorites are derived differentiated -- or separated into parts of different composition -- within 5 million years of the formation of the Solar System
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| Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:13:16 -0700 |
| Rare meteorite sliced open |
Mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum had their first look Wednesday inside a rare, 53-kilogram meteorite chunk found near Springwater, Sask., in 2009.
After 48 hours of careful cutting, a wire saw studded with diamonds released a piece of rock about the size of a large slice of bread Wednesday morning from a hunk as large as a high school student's backpack
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| Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:35 -0700 |
| Fight Over Meteorite Crashes Into Court |
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A family medical practice has sued its landlord to determine who owns the palm-sized meteorite that crashed through the building's roof into an examination room. The doctors say the meteorite is in "safekeeping" at the Smithsonian Institutions, which offered $5,000 for the space rock, which the doctors want to donate for relief work in Haiti.
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| Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:56:48 -0700 |
| Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine |
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A new and exciting meteorite related print magazine with a focus on the adventure, science, and fun of meteorite hunting and collecting. Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine is a bi-monthly full color magazine chock full of interesting meteorite articles and information for the amateur and professional meteorite hunter, collector, astronomer and scientist alike. Learn what meteorites are, where they come from, how to find meteorites, recover, collect meteorites, and help advance the great science of meteoritics.
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