Tag: meteorite
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PBS Eons: Could You Survive the K-Pg Extinction?
PBS Eons has another of their longer form videos which address major events in the history of the Earth. This one is about the K-Pg mass extinction event about 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Would/could you survive? Remember, this event took out the non-avian dinosaurs, the ammonites, and many,…
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Fragments of Asteroid With Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin
The New York Times has a story about a meteorite with mysterious origins. A little after midnight on January 21st, 2024, a small meteor struck the Earth at Ribbeck, a village just outside Berlin, Germany. There was no damage. The meteor, probably less than three feet in diameter, was first spotted by Krisztián Sárneczky, a…
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Man Uses Strange Rock as Doorstop For Decades. It Turned Out to Be Worth a Fortune
ScienceAlert has a story of an unexpected valuable find. A farmer in Michigan didn’t realize that his 22 pound (10 kilogram) doorstop was a rare meteorite. Back in 2018, David Mazurek of Grand Rapids, Michigan asked Mona Sirbescu, a geologist at Central Michigan University (CMU), about the rock he’d found about 30 years ago… How…
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Video for ESCONI June 2021 General Meeting – “The Glasford Structure: A Marine Target Impact Crater with a Possible Connection to the Great Ordovician Meteorite Shower”
The speaker at our June 2021 meeting was Charles Monson from ISGS. Charles recently published on the Glasford Illinois impact structure and its relation to the Ordovician meteor event. WCBU, a joint service of Bradley University and Illinois State University, interviewed Charles back in November 2019. Their program is online and available for listening. His paper was…
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Throwback Thursday #69: The Benld meteorite
This is Throwback Thursday #69. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Something a little different this week, we have an interesting story of a meteorite that struck a car…
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ESCONI June 2021 General Meeting – June 11th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “The Glasford Structure: A Marine Target Impact Crater with a Possible Connection to the Great Ordovician Meteorite Shower”
The speaker at our June 2021 meeting will be Charles Monson from ISGS. Charles recently published on the Glasford Illinois impact structure and its relation to the Ordovician meteor event. WCBU, a joint service of Bradley University and Illinois State University, interviewed Charles back in November 2019. Their program is online and available for listening. …
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AMNH: Asteroid Crash Course Live
The American Museum of Natural History is hosting a video course on Asteroids. Catch it over on Youtube on April 17th, 2020 at 1:30 PM. Join Curator Denton Ebel this Friday, April 17, at 1:30 pm on YouTube for a watch party of the Museum’s popular video series exploring asteroids, meteors, and meteorites. Ebel…
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Meteorite Grains Are the Oldest Known Solid Material on Earth
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about some very old dust. Even if you haven’t cleaned lately, it’s highly doubtful the dust around your home is as old as the dust described in a recent paper published in the journal PNAS. The lead author is a curator of meteorites at the Field Museum in Chicago, which…
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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It’s Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable #meteorite
ScienceAlert has a post about a valuable find in Australia. It seems that David Hole found a rock he hoped would be gold. It wasn’t, but as it turns out it was more valuable than gold! In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he…
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WTTW: Field Museum’s New Meteorite Contains Stardust That Predates the Solar System
WTTW News has a piece about a new meteorite at the Field Museum. The new specimen is a 4-pound chunk of a meteorite that crashed into a Costa Rican village earlier this year. The chunk was purchased by frequent donor Terry Boudreaux, a retired health care executive. The unimpressive looking rock is a rare…
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Field Museum: Meteorites! Opening January 26th, 2017
METEORITES! Official Opening Day: Thursday, January 26th! Come check it out at any time! Where do meteorites come from? What are they made of? What happens when they fall to Earth? This stunning new display at The Field Museum asks all of these questions and gives you a closer look at actual meteorites from…
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Jim Holstein to Speak on Fossil Meteorites at the January, 2015 General Meeting
Spinel group minerals in unequilibrated ordinary chondrites: How oxide minerals can aid in the understanding of the flux of extraterrestrial materials in Earth’s history. Fossils found in sediments have long been used to piece together the evolution of life on Earth. However, extraterrestrial materials are also found in sedimentary deposits. Fossil meteorites that date back…
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Meteorite In Russia Is a Quasicrystal
Via PhysOrg: a simple rock found in a remote part of Russia. That simple rock, which has been identified as a quasicrystal, is, according to team who has been doing research on it, as they report in PNAS, most likely part of a meteorite that came from a time not long after the birth of…
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Friday Lecture: Meteorites & Impact Events
Friday, 6/10 – General Meeting – Lecture: Dr. James St. John, Ohio State University at Newark will present a program on Introduction to Meteorites and Impact Events. This will give an overview of what rocks from space look like, what their mineral contents are, their ages, their origins, and their beauty. Various rocks resulting from…
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Events This Week Ending Sunday 6/12
Friday, 6/10 – General Meeting – Lecture: Dr. James St. John, Ohio State University at Newark will present a program on Introduction to Meteorites and Impact Events. This will give an overview of what rocks from space look like, what their mineral contents are, their ages, their origins, and their beauty. Various rocks resulting from…
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Meteorite News
From Physorg: …Two new types of ultra-hard carbon crystals have been found by researchers investigating the ureilite class Haverö meteorite that crashed to Earth in Finland in 1971.. From Washington Post: …As one of the many local residents who saw the Lorton meteorite fall to Earth on Jan. 18, I was disappointed to read that…
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ESCONI Meetings This Friday and Saturday – Learn about Field Museum Meteorites & Split Geodes
Friday, January 8 – General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. Jim Holstein, of the Department of Geology at the Field Museum will be speaking on “The Field Museum’s Meteorite Collection.” Learn about meteorites, what they are, the different types, how they’re identified, and what we can learn from them. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, January…
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Boy Hit By Meteorite
German boy sees light, feels burn as pea sized meteorite bounces off his hand, gets knocked down, stands up and sees foot wide crater next to him… he couldn’t hear so well for awhile but lives to tell about it…. Update: It may be a hoax… the Bad Astronomy blog argues both ways and some…
