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Meteorites Featured in American Pop Exhibition!

American Pop! Comic Books to Science Fiction…and Beyond! January 17 – June 8 No admission fee Explore the ongoing influences of comic books, television, movies and science fiction on some of today's leading artists, scientists and academic professionals at the Tempe Center for the Arts! Meteorites from the Center for Meteorite Studies Vintage super hero […]

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2014’s First Asteroid Discovery!

The first asteroid to be discovered in 2014 appears to have broken up over the Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office.  Entering Earth's atmosphere in the early hours of January 1, 2014, this small asteroid, labeled 2014 AA, was first identified by researchers at the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona.  […]

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Losttown

Losttown is an iron meteorite (IID) found in Georgia, in 1868. This specimen exhibits excellent Widmanstätten pattern (named for Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten, director of the Austrian Imperial Porcelain Works, in 1808), created by the interlocking crystal structure of two nickel-iron alloys.  Most iron meteorites are believed to originate in the cores of large […]

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