[meteorite-list] Alma College work on meteorite project!

From: Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:54:27 -0400
Message-ID: <3883AB149D08471F8C6BD56E164305C1_at_DESKTOPCOMP>

I watched a show the other night on Science channel called "Killed Asteroid"
and it showed NASA/JPL shooting a Tagish Lake with some fancy "BB" gun.
Their microscopic photos of it looked like pumice, because they were
comparing the "air cells" that absorbed impact and didn't shatter to a more
solid one that really shattered.


Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secretary,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
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Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Alma College work on meteorite project!


> Ed,
> Really good question . And what about this quote;
> "
> "That meteorite, largely made of pumice, now has two bullets in it."
>
> What kind of meteorite is" largely Pumice"?
> Makes you wonder what rare meteorite they are shooting?
>
> CI1 maybe?
> Very Strange.
>
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl or Debbie Esparza
> Meteoritemax
>
>
> ---- Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> See: http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2010/06/26/news/
>> srv0000008642105.txt
>>
>> A quote from this article:
>>
>> "There are plenty of meteorites available that have little or no
>> value-------"
>>
>> If this is true, why do collectors pay big bucks for them? I wonder
>> what they do with the fragments! Just asking folks! ;-)
>>
>> Ed Majden
>> Courtenay, B.C.
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