[meteorite-list] Thin Section-- The Motion Picture

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Aug 10 17:50:15 2006
Message-ID: <0s9nd29j3q25cbtuvk0rjhbkvpp76tbd15_at_4ax.com>

A few years back there was a medical project where someone took frozen corpses,
embedded them in something, and then shaved them down a millimeter or so at a
time, taking a photo at each slice. I've wished that someone would do that with
some low-metamorphic grade meteorites. Today I stumbled across a site that
doesn't have it done with photos, but has the next best thing-- tomographic
segments of a few meteorites. The web site has videos made from some of the
collections of images:

http://research.amnh.org/users/debel/meteorites/

I took the images of Semarkona and made them into AVI files

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/temp/

using the xvid codec, found here:

http://www.xvid.org/
Received on Thu 10 Aug 2006 05:51:19 PM PDT