I caught a nice southern Taurid on camera last night. It exploded reaching -14 magnitude or brighter.
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A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post are those tektites?!
midtskogen wrote:Source of the post My entire meteorite collection consists of a small piece of Valle which was given to me by its finder. A pretty common class of meteorite.
Watsisname wrote:A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post are those tektites?!
No, tektites are glass-like blobs of material that was melted and ejected by impacts occurring on Earth, so they are made mostly of Earthly materials. I have an impact generated glass (Libyan desert glass), which might be called an "impactite", but no tektites.
The above meteorites are all fairly unaltered rocks from the parent body that were ejected and made it to Earth. They came from the Moon, Mars, and the core of an asteroid, respectively.midtskogen wrote:Source of the post My entire meteorite collection consists of a small piece of Valle which was given to me by its finder. A pretty common class of meteorite.
That's awesome. I love the story of the find for this one, and that you obtained it from the original finder! Imagine recreating in the mountains, and stumbling across something like that. That would be a very good day.
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Wat, is there a special term for meteorites that came from Mars or the Moon? I remember a very famous one from Mars was discovered in Antarctica!
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Wouldn't it be something if one day we found an earth rock on the Moon or Mars?
midtskogen wrote:A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Wouldn't it be something if one day we found an earth rock on the Moon or Mars?
More realistic and equally awesome: What if we found an Earth meteorite on Earth. Ejected perhaps several hundred million years ago, isolated from all geological processes, then returning to Earth. It could even be a meteorite with real fossils. But for something to escape Earth the impact must be much larger than on the Moon and Mars, so I would expect such rocks to be highly metamorphed and not so much intact time capsules.