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Welcome
and thank you for visiting our meteorite information site. Our next new
feature is our new Meteorites For Sale page with new dealer listings, ebay
auction listings of meteorites for sale and our free classifieds. Our Information
page is separated by Science and Learning, Photography, and Community listings.
In other meteorite news we have finished our new online store and have many
affordable
Meteorites For Sale and add to our catalog often. Please enjoy your
visit!Paul and Jim
Our
Meteorites For
Sale page is a great way for you to find and buy meteorites and tektites
for sale. Our page is a control panel that allows immediate access to over
30 Dealers websites, ebay auctions and ebay stores. All sites open from
within our site for a fast and easy browsing experience. Meteorite Dealers
are also sorted alphabetically by business name and by personal name.
Meteorite-Times
Magazine is our free on-line magazine with monthly
articles,
gallery, free classified ads, links, dealers and more. See what's
new this month in
Meteorite-Times Magazine.Be
sure to sign up on our mailing list to receive email notification when each
new issue is available to read. METEORITE
Magazine serves as a forum for communication
between amateurs, collectors, dealers, educators and researchers interested
in meteorites. We
are very fortunate for the opportunity to host the microscopic
meteorite
photography of Tom Phillips. This Gallery
of the work by Tom Phillips will open in a new window for your viewing
pleasure. Do
you think you've found a meteorite? See our
Meteorite Identification
page where you can find the information you need to help determine
if you've found a real specimen a meteor-wrong. On the page are links to
informative websites. Meteor
Crater, Northern Arizona, USA also know as Barringer Meteorite Crater,
is the World's best preserved impact crater and also the source of the Canyon
Diablo meteorites. Join us as we take you on two guided tours. Our first
tour walks you around the rim of meteor crater and on the second tour we
take you down to the floor of meteor crater. Meteorite
hunting is a very rewarding challenge though the rewarding we're talking
about is in the personal satisfaction of finding meteorites, those amazing
rocks from space. When you find a meteorite by either sight, magnet
cane, or metal detector you may also be surprised by the size of your.
Meteorites range in size from milligrams to over 60
tons.
The meteorite in this photo is only 1.5 grams but nicely crusted and a thrill
to find. Here is a story that illustrates how we as
meteorite hunters,
can turn a normal day of meteorite hunting into quite an adventure.
Tektites
have long been one of the most confounding objects studied by man. Our new
revised tektite information
page brings up to date information together with tektite pictures and links
to tektite articles. |
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Before the devastating tornado in 2007, Greensburg was well-known for two things: 1) the world's largest hand-dug well and 2) a meteor shower that occurred about 20,000 years ago. In 1949, a half-ton meteorite was discovered and moved to the Big Well ... This image of the meteorite, seen through a scanning electron microscope, shows bumps that resemble a fossilized colony of microbacteria. Some of the rounded bumps are preserved at the top of the surface and resemble individual spherical and ovoid ... The search continues for a full moon-bright meteoroid likely to have landed in west suburban Beijing on Wednesday in what astronomers said could lead to one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing this year. Witnesses in Beijing and nearby Tianjin ... |