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Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters Dorothy S. Norton, O. Richard Norton
Publisher: Mountain Pr

He was obviously passionate about his hunt as displayed by the number of locations he had visited during his meteorite search. Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters book download. Instead he had some really nice river rocks. Black and dark brown rock as most meteorites are colored stand out on the light clay colored surface of the dry lakes. Scientists are on an epic treasure hunt for meteorite fragments from a spectacular fireball that lit up the daytime sky over California last month. The meteorite turned out to be a very rare type of rock called CM chondrite, which makes up less than 1 per cent of the meteorites that fall to Earth. So, in no way am I denigrating those that hunt the space rock that I may end up studying. Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, estimates the object was about the size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds. It actually makes for a great teaching moment. "Most meteors Meteorite hunters found fragments of the rock, identified by the "fusion crust" that forms when it burns in the atmosphere. To be fair, finding meteorites isn't easy regardless of what it may look like on T.V. They all displayed the smooth contours that typify rocks of a fluvial environment. Now, NASA has a meteorite rush on its hands, one just as exciting as the California's Gold Rush, the agency said. He also happens to wear a lot of tactical clothes while doing so. Saturday, 13 April 2013 at 08:39. As co-host of the Science Channel's Meteorite Men, Notkin shares his passion and adventures with the world. Private asteroid miners may have an initial market among meteorite collectors but their long-haul customers for space rock samples returned to Earth are likely to be scientists, entrepreneurs said at a recent convention in Tucson.