Subject:
|
A piece of SPACE... no more.... darn it.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.space
|
Date:
|
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 06:35:18 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
387 times
|
| |
|
|
Hi all,
Haven't been building lately (much) due to planning and leading a mission
trip. Well on that trip one of my college students dug up this 17 pound
chunk of something:
http://www.classic-space.com/spaceblog/DSC00075.JPG
http://www.classic-space.com/spaceblog/DSC00076.JPG
(You can look through pics 00075 - 00084 Check out the cool crystal like
fibers in it) It was dense, metalic, attracted a magnet, and had a slight
pull itself.
Well, we couldn't figure it out. SO we took it to a couple of geologists,
one bet his lunch it was a spacerock.
But then we went to the Meteor expert at Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta.
AND: Dog gone it, SLAG. :-D (18th or 19th century slag... but slag)
A geologist owe me a heapin cup of free lunch.
We were pumped, but such is life. It was fun to imagine...
http://www.classic-space.com/spaceblog/DSC00085.JPG
http://www.classic-space.com/spaceblog/DSC00086.JPG
*stares at stars, marvels at creation... and returns to lego table*
Chris <><
PS. The meteor guy at Fernbank let us look at and hold some really cool
meteorites. Such cool stuff.
|
|
Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: A piece of SPACE... no more.... darn it.
|
| I used to love combing the local cliffs for space debris after a sizable chunk of iron ore metorite was discovered one year on a class trip. Bummer that it didn't turn out to be as spacey as you hoped, but it still led to a profitable trip to the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.space)
|
4 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
