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Christian Anger


Christian Anger
Austria

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I live in Austria on the historical soil of the biggest ancient roman legion camp called "Carnuntum". On this area are two villages now. One of them is my hometown Bad Deutsch-Altenburg on the most eastern foothills of the eastern Alps called "Hundsheimer Mountains". It’s about 50 km east of Vienna riverdown the river Danube, near the border to Slovakia.

My job is construction engineer for road constructions and pavements.

My most famous interests are amateur astronomy, meteorite collecting (and a bit hunting and trading and selling) as well as impact structures and meteorite craters of our planet Earth.

The roots of my interest in meteorites and related matter are in amateur astronomy and collecting some minerals when I was a boy. 32 years ago I got a small book about stars and planets. I took some old binoculars and looked, as recommended in this book, up to the clear skies. I will never forget this moment.
It affected my whole life. I also collected minerals at this time. We have an ancient quarry here in my hometown. There are some caverns, where I climbed into to pick up calcites.

My special interest in astronomy is the exploration of our solar system. I tried to get all the information the space probes sent back to Earth. But at this time there were not many books and magazines available in Austria. In 1993 I got my first internet account. Then I was able to get all those informations and images from the planets and their moons of our solar system. I loved this strange and extraordinary landscapes and - especially the impact craters. This was the point when my interest in astromomy went into the science of meteorite craters and impact structures, especially of our planet Earth. Then I wanted to hold the things, which causes such craters, in my own hand. Amateur astronomy and mineral collecting cumulated in my love to meteorites.

My first meteorite was a Sikhote-Alin 49 g Individual. A very interesting one. It is 3/4 an ablated Individual and 1/4 a shrapnel. It is broken open on one side and you see a spiral shape like a thread in the interior. From this moment on, I was completely fascinated about meteorites and this love is still growing. The most beautiful experience in this passion was my first own finding of a meteorite. A Individual from a fresh fall - Moravka.

My goal in collecting meteorites is to have at least one specimen of every type (and subtype) of meteorites. I am type-collector. I also collect tektites, all types of impact materials and I have a small collection of meteorwrongs for comparison purposes.
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