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Possible meteorite strikes home in New Jersey By CNN, May 8, 2023 Possible meteorite crashes through roof of New Jersey home 6abc Digital Staff, May 9, 2023, pictures and video Hopewell, New Jersey, meteorite fall, May 8, 2023 NASA, Jet Populsion Laboratory Meteorite hit Mercer County home, The College of New Jersey confirms "We are excited to be able to confirm that the object is a true chondrite meteorite," said the chair of TCNJ's physics department. 6abc Digital Staff, May 11, 2023 Yours, Paul H.

Piece of meteorite that created boom over Utah gifted to University of Utah, Fox 13 By: Spencer Joseph, August 23, 2022 The source of a resounding boom over Salt Lake City? Probably a meteor. Satellite imagery and a video from a Utah ski resort helped solve the case of the mysterious noise By Zach Rosenthal, The Washington Post, August 15, 2022 Meteorite hunters find what is believed to be pieces of meteorite boom, KSL 5 TV, August 18, 2022, Meteor causes loud boom heard across northern Utah, National Weather Service says, KSL 5 TV, Aug 13, 2022, Footage of meteor over Snowbasin Resort released By Ryan Bittan, ABC 4COM, Aug 13, 2022 Exploding meteor startles Utah By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, August 15, 2022 Yours, Paul H.

Astonishingly old Antarctic space rock could explain mystery of life's weird asymmetry By Meghan Bartels, SpaceCom, August 21, 2020 https://www.space.com/pristine-antarctic-meteorite-amino-acid-chirality.html Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks By Lonnie Shekhtman, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., August 21, 2020 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/pristine-space-rock-offers-nasa-scientists-peek-at-evolution-of-life-s-building-blocks The paper is: Daniel P. Glavin Hannah L. McLain Jason P. Dworkin Eric T. Parker and others, 2020 Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka 12236 First published: 20 August 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13560 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13560 Yours, Paul H.

The story of the fossil meteorites What four small pieces of rock can teach us about the history of the solar system. By David Boehnlein, Astronomy, November 29, 2017 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/11/the-story-of-the-fossil-meteorites Yours, Paul H.

Hello guys. I'm very new in fossil collection. Not so long ago I purchased a box with stones, meteorites and fossils at garage sale. Now I'm trying my best to ID what is what. Can you please help me to identify those cross section slabs I posted on photos. Size of bigger slab is 82mm (3.2inch), thickness is 6.6mm (0.26inch). It has distinctive pattern of spiral "oncolite stromatolite dots". All sort of suggestions will be very helpful. Unfortunately no information was left by previous owner of that box. Cheers

I had posted a couple of rather "poor" photographs of a ?meteorite? or some high metallic content slag that has some odd surface features on sharktoothboy's post of June 30, 2013. This IS a meteorite and at first glance appears to be a "plain old rock". It came from a purchase several years ago of a mixture of odds and ends purchased from a Geologist's Estate. I gave it no thought until recently while sorting through some Galena specimens and river glass, etc. It was in a small plastic box with a faint penciled LABEL. I emphasized Label, as if it were not for the small label, there would have been some debate if this was even worth keeping. When purchasing drawers of miscellaneous out of map cabinets at a flat price you just find a carton and fill it up and keep going when there is time to investigate WHAT I bought later, when more time is available. Now I have told the story how I acquired this... meteorite Chondrite H5(S3) and will explain WHO made the original find and WHERE. I guess... The Rest of the Story as many of would recognize as Paul Harvey and his radio stories. Mr. Ferol Burns in April 1965 found an unusual stone in a field near Springer, Oklahoma. (The report does not say why he was in the field, so that is an unknown to myself.) Mr. Burns took the large, almost 20 pound stone, and broke it into two large halves and at least this one piece that I currently possess. A Petroleum Geologist who collected everything from coins to arrowheads had the opportunity to purchase the stone and the Geologist sold the two large halves to the Monnig Collection in December 1972 for an undisclosed sum. This "stone" was recognized as a possible meteorite by the buyer and presented for identification to the University of Arizona in Tucson and was examined by A. L. Graham & A. W. R. Bevan and R. Hutchison with a paper describing the Chrondrite in Catalogue of Meteorites (1985). A paper by Arthur J. Ehlmann and Klaus Keil in Meteoritics 27, p470-p472 (1992) titled Classification of Four Ordinary Chondrites from the Monnig Meteorite Collection. The last entry of the various Chondrites described was the... Springer, Carter County, Oklahoma specimen(s). A single meteorite broken in several large (4.38kg and 3.763kg) halves. Two thin sections had been made. One thin section by Oscar Monnig and the second to the Meteorite Collection of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii. Imagine my surprise when I found this article! Imagine my surprise when the original finder decided to "bust the dang thing open to see what might be inside"! I cannot even describe my surprise that this was a legitimate Meteorite... with a powerful magnet in hand to test it, this made me curious after it stuck to the magnet. When you find the description of the thin section... you will understand the situation of the other meteorite or meteor-wrong being offered for identification by sharktoothboy. I had offered up an equally odd looking stone, but found by a friend at a garage sale in Arizona. These really need to be examined by thin section and given a cursory look by the University of Arizona or University of Hawaii... My first scan is the label. Probably the BEST REASON why all Forum Members should provide at least some kind of a label with past, current and future finds... rock, fossil... meteorites.