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Posted on January 30, 2013 by Center for Meteorite Studies

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ASU Meteorites @ASUMeteorites·

17 Sep

Fusion crust! Also, lunar basalts don't contain hydrous minerals like amphibole or mica. Chemical testing is used to definitively ID lunar meteorites - @WUSTL_EPS has tons of great info, here: https://bit.ly/2FP1UC1
#AskACurator #lunarmeteorite #spacerocks

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ASU Meteorites @ASUMeteorites·

17 Sep

September's #MeteoriteoftheMonth is Plantersville, an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell in #Texas the afternoon of September 4, 1930. #meteorite
More info: https://meteorites.asu.edu/meteorites/plantersville

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NHM Meteorites @NHM_Meteorites·

17 Sep

Interesting article here (link below) detailing how the joint @esa @JAXA_en spacecraft @BepiColombo will perform a flyby of #Venus next month and use this opportunity to look again for #phosphine "up close".
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2020/09/16/in-a-complete-fluke-a-european-spacecraft-is-about-to-fly-past-venus--and-could-look-for-signs-of-life/#783539fa2681

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Kit McColl @KitMccoll·

11 Aug

Our discussion of #nanostructures in #meteorite impact diamonds 💎🌠 & shocked carbon materials is out now in @NatureMaterials!

Awesome work by Pèter Nèmeth, Mara Murri @unipv, Laurence Garvie @ASUMeteorites and @CGS_lab & Paul McMillan @UCLChemistry.

https://go.nature.com/31CFpYx

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ASU Meteorites @ASUMeteorites·

17 Sep

The odds are very low, but we don't know of all the asteroids that cross Earth's orbit. So it is very important that astronomers keep searching for them.
More info:
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/back2.html
#AskACurator

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