Philosophy
Massive, spectacular, and one lucky Mexican boy. 41 years ago ushered the event that lit up the sky and provided meteorite fragments that indicated that the "rock" [a carbonaceous chondrite] was tested to be 4.567 billion years old, which makes it thirty million years older than the earth itself and hundreds of millions older than the oldest known rocks on earth. I wonder if the boy was rewarded for his find.
Allende meteorite
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Philosophy
1:05 AM on February 8th, 1969--the Allende meteorite
The fragment is at the Smithsonian and a photo of the Mexican boy who found it.
Massive, spectacular, and one lucky Mexican boy. 41 years ago ushered the event that lit up the sky and provided meteorite fragments that indicated that the "rock" [a carbonaceous chondrite] was tested to be 4.567 billion years old, which makes it thirty million years older than the earth itself and hundreds of millions older than the oldest known rocks on earth. I wonder if the boy was rewarded for his find.
Allende meteorite
- Ancient Buddhist Statue, Nazis, Meteorite, Indiana Jones?...no Jones
"Ancient Buddhist statue, filched by Nazis, was carved from meteorite" by Will Parker Septrember 27th, 2012 Science a Go Go A 1,000 year-old Buddhist statue discovered by a Nazi expedition to Tibet in 1938 has been analyzed by scientists and...
- Aboriginal Oral Traditions And "cosmic Impacts And Meteorite Falls"--mythology
Abstract: Descriptions of cosmic impacts and meteorite falls are found throughout Australian Aboriginal oral traditions. In some cases, these texts describe the impact event in detail, suggesting that the events were witnessed, sometimes citing the location....
- Deceased--brian H. Mason
Brian H. Mason 1917 to December 3rd, 2009 "Brian H. Mason dies at 92; scientist known for study of meteorites, moon rocks" The Smithsonian geochemist was the first to discover that a rock found in Antarctica came from the moon. He wrote one of his field's...
- Canadian November 20th Meteorite
University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley poses with a fragment of a meteorite in a small pond near Lloydminster, Sask., Canada Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before...
- Meteorites--losing Their Value?
The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured...