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Re: A piece of SPACE... no more.... darn it.
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Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:34:38 GMT
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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 Institute....and that's all good!
Don't know if I'm more jealous of your experience at Fernbank or that you're
an educator! Dream job for me.
Thanks for sharing...
-Gil
In lugnet.space, Chris Giddens writes:
> 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.
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> 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)
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> A geologist owe me a heapin cup of free lunch.
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> We were pumped, but such is life. It was fun to imagine...
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> http://www.classic-space.com/spaceblog/DSC00085.JPG
> http://www.classic-space.com/spaceblog/DSC00086.JPG
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> *stares at stars, marvels at creation... and returns to lego table*
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> Chris <><
> PS. The meteor guy at Fernbank let us look at and hold some really cool
> meteorites. Such cool stuff.
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