Meteorite Times Magazine

Lissa: Fell 110 years before Czechoslovakia, and 182 years before the Czech Republic

Martin Horejsi — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:35:21 PDT

Lissa is an L6 meteorite that fell in 1808. And that’s a long time ago by any meteorite collecting measurement. I feel fortunate to have a slice in my collection because Lissa fell when the ancestors on my father’s side lived in what was once Bohemia, then Czechoslovakia, and now the Czech Republic. This [...]

Mystery Stone Revealed

Jim Tobin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:50:50 PDT

I left you all hanging a couple issues ago regarding a meteorite I bought at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. Well, I am ready to tell all now that it is done being classified. It was a strange stone, with a very weird looking outside surface. It was a funny color and not very [...]

Meteorite Market Trends

Michael Blood — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:00:44 PDT

This Month’s Meteorite Market Trends by Michael Blood

IMCA Insights – April 2012

IMCA TEAM — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:29:06 PDT

NWA 6007 L3.5

John Kashuba — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:57:15 PDT

NWA 6007 is terrestrially fresh but shocked. It has well defined chondrulesSmall round and oval structures of crystal grains found in most chondrite type meteorites. as you would expect of an L3.5. Compression has caused an orientation of components within the stone. Dark inclusions are scattered throughout. [...]

Meteorite Calendar – April 2012

Anne Black — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:42:57 PDT

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Springwater Pallasite

Editor — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:11:11 PDT

Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Contributed by Robert Ward, Springwater 312 gram slice. PallasiteA class of meteorites characterized by a mixture of large olivineA magnesium-iron silicate mineral commonly found in meteorites. It occurs as microscopic crystal grains in chondrites and as [...]

Collapsed Lei Gong Mo Bubble Fragment

Norm Lehrman — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:04:40 PDT

A collapsed Lei Gong Mo bubble fragment, Guangdong Province, China (from the author’s private collection) This is a popped bubble where a flap of the skin folded in on itself while still sufficiently hot and plastic to fuse along the inner surface. Both surfaces have seen the same duration of terrestrial etching, but [...]

Meteorites Stolen from University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy

Editor — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:37:24 PST

Sometime between January 27 and March 3, a person or persons entered an office at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy at 640 North A’ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii and removed meteorites from within it. The items were important research specimens and teaching tools used in education and public outreach with the young people of [...]

Chantonnay: 200 Years and One Fine Person

Martin Horejsi — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:07:33 PST

One hundred years ago this August… a meteorite fell on the small villa of Chantonnay, France. The stone was studied throughout the next two hundred years including under the observant eye of Tschermak who described a fibrous translucent mineral within the matrixThe material of a meteorite that fills the spaces between chondrulesSmall round and oval [...]