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Welcome
and thank you for visiting our meteorite information site. Our site
features our new Meteorites For Sale page, Meteorite Dealer Listings, ebay
Auction Listings of meteorites for sale and our Free Classifieds. Our
Meteorite 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. 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. We have recently updated our ebay
meteorite auctions
page to allow sorting of the auctions by individual meteorite dealer. Meteorite-Times
Magazine is our free on-line magazine with monthly
articles, gallery, free classified ads, links, dealers and more. ... 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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Cutlip explained that meteorites, pieces of asteroids that break away ... Scientist, said," With a pristine sample, especially one from an asteroid type not available in NASA's meteorite collections, scientists will learn more about the time before ... This is an artist's depiction of a huge meteorite striking earth 65 million years ago, sending the dinosaurs and many other life forms into extinction. A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the ... The Tomchin Planetarium and Observatory hosts a number of shows tonight. The planetarium will show "Impact Earth" beginning at 7 p.m. The hour long show places the spotlight on the dangers space objects like asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites ... Six windows are arrayed along its sides and another on top, all protected against the impact of tiny meteorites. Once the new room is in place, the space station will be 90 per cent complete. The mission, one of five scheduled for NASA's three ... Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday. "This asteroid is a time capsule from before the ... |