Meteorite Times Magazine

Mbale: The First Digital Meteorite

Martin Horejsi — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:30:07 PDT

For a brief period in August 1992, a meteorite fall captured the attention of those few on the planet who were enamored by such things. The shower of stones arrived at 3:40 in the afternoon creating quite a disturbance. One hundred fifty kilos of anything falling from the sky and landing on a town would [...]

Meteorite Vacation 2012 Part Three

James Tobin — Wed, 01 May 2013 22:54:34 PDT

With our new bimonthly schedule for magazine releases it is hard to believe that the final part of last year’s vacation is just now being put out to readers. Still excited about our success at Holbrook we had one more day at Meteor Crater and it was finally time to run up the road and [...]

Meteorite Market Trends

Michael Blood — Wed, 01 May 2013 21:00:44 PDT

This Month’s Meteorite Market Trends by Michael Blood

Primm and the other Roach Dry Lake Meteorites – Another effort to reconstruct fragmented meteorites

Robert Verish — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:50:28 PDT

Monika Waiblinger on Roach Dry Lake in 2009 October, pointing to a 37gram meteorite that she just found. It’s hard to say when this story started. It’s not always easy to pinpoint when a specific action precipitates a course of events, particularly when more than one story dovetails and over time forms a [...]

NWA 4540 CO3.5

John Kashuba — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:03:12 PDT

CO3s, carbonaceous chondrites of the Ornans type, contain the smallest chondrules of any of the major chondrite types. Still, chondrule sizes vary among CO3s. And within this CO3 there is a variety of chondrule sizes and a great variety of chondrule types and other matter. It is good to be observant when scanning a thin [...]

Atmospheric Time Capsules!

Norm Lehrman — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:24:40 PDT

What are the chances of finding a sample of earth atmosphere that was sealed in a very high-purity glass capsule with centimeter thick walls 780,000 years ago? A pristine sample before mankind had done anything to modify the air—no industrial revolution, no nukes, and no fluorocarbons. Homo erectus was still struggling to tame a campfire. [...]

Meteorite Calendar – May 2013

Anne Black — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:21:01 PDT

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NWA 7325 Achondrite Meteorite

Editor — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:32:08 PDT

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STOLEN METEORITES

Editor — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:57:24 PDT

#meteorites Attention Meteorite Community: Please be on the look out for meteorites that were recently stolen at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. A partial list with many pictures is available now at this website http://www.meteorite.fr/en/stolen.htm If you are contacted or see any specimens for sale and suspect that they are part of what was [...]

The St. Michel, Finland Meteorite – A Lifetime of Breakage

Martin Horejsi — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:12:39 PST

A July 1910 Witnessed Fall: The St. Michel, Finland Meteorite A Lifetime of Breakage Impressive breccias such as St. Michel provide obvious visual evidence of near-catastrophic injury before arriving on earth. Breccias are rocks composed of various sized visible pieces of angular rock cemented together. But that was just the beginning for St. Michel. [...]