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Meteor crater iron spheroids
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- Subject: Meteor crater iron spheroids
- From: "Bob King" <lakewind@duluth.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 19:56:08 -0500
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Perhaps many of you on this list are aware of this -- forgive me if so -- but
others may not be. On a trip last year to Meteor Crater near Winslow, AZ I
checked out the gift shop and noticed they were selling bags of "Authentic
Cosmic Meteor Dust." For $5 you get a "kit" containing an approx. 8 oz. bag of
soil collected from around the crater, a magnet, a magnifying glass and a tube
to collect your samples. You brush the magnet through the soil and indeed
quite a number of metallic spherules are quickly attracted to it. They are
obviously spheroidal with the naked eye but make interesting observing under a
magnifying glass or low power microscope. It's actually a nice kit and for the
price can't be beat.
Bob King
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