Kansas is not ordinarily the sort of place you go looking for interesting igneous rocks. But that didn’t deter professional meteorite hunter Steve Arnold. And two weeks ago he made a stupendous find…
The meteorite is classified as an “oriented pallasite.” Only two other meteorites of that type and magnitude are known: one that weighs 3,100 pounds, in Australia; and one that weighs 1,500 pounds, in Argentina.
Pallasites are a type of meteorite that has olivine crystals embedded in iron-nickel alloy.
And the fact that it is oriented, meaning it fell through the Earth’s atmosphere without spinning and formed a conical or bullet shape as its surface melted, makes it rare.
Now that’s a keeper!
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1 comment
Monday, November 14, 2005 at 12:19 pm
Dave Schumaker
Impressive!