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If a person can find meteorites with drone, Why not vertebrate fossils? In the case of fossils, geological maps and aerial images take the roles of the radar and satellites used for meteorites. Drone assisted meteorite recovery Global Fireball Observatory, March 14, 2022 How satellites, radar and drones are tracking meteorites and aiding Earth’s asteroid defence Hadrian Devillepoix, The Conversation, November 21, 2022 An early attempt at using drones to find fossils: Archaeologists are hunting for fossils in Kenya's Turkana Basin — and you can help The Week, September 11, 2015 I have yet to find any publications that resulted from this research except for "Fossil Finder - the next stage. April 2018 Update. There is "field guide" on the righthand side that shows what fossils look like in an aerial drone image. 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.

Green, C. E., 2019. Investigating the origin of a Greenland ice core geochemical anomaly near the Bølling-Allerød/Younger Dryas boundary (Doctoral dissertation, Durham University). http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13490/ http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13490/1/C_Green_thesis_final_CORRECTIONS.pdf Green (2019) noted: "The source of a platinum peak identified in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core associated with high platinum/iridium (Pt/Ir) and platinum/aluminium (Pt/Al) ratios, and previous research attributed the anomaly to an unusual iron-rich Ir-poor meteorite impact." Green (2019) concluded: I. the Laacher See eruption is not the Pt spike source because: A. the Laacher See tephra has low Pt concentrations, B. the Laacher See tephra’s geochemical ratios are dissimilar to the GISP2 Pt spike and C. conversion of the Pt spike timing to the newest ice core age-depth model shows a chronological offset of ~60 years between the two events. II. The event resulting in the Pt spike occurred ~60 years after GS-1 cooling, and was therefore not the primary trigger. III. and the Pt spike origin is interpreted as either: A. a noncataclysmic impact of an undiscovered iron meteorite B. or an unidentified Pt-rich volcanic eruption contemporaneous with the anomaly, whose aerosol fractionated in the atmosphere or ice. Yours, Paul H.

Aloha, here is the best of my collection. Since I moved together with my girlfriend, only the small and nice samples are on display, one showcase out of three. Looking forward to the day when we will have some more space. So it is a crowded mix of fossils, minerals, recent beachfinds and mosty selfmade or altered skeleton models. Sadly, only a small percentage of my fossils is selffound, although nearly all of the beach stuff is. There is the "poultry showcase", dedicated to Birds and pterosaurs (Parrot skull is a replica of course, as is the Pterosaur plate regrettably) The big showcase is a composite image because I could not get all into one foto. The whales you may know from the Palaeorecreation thread. Best Regards, J

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest places, Geological Society of America Sciencedaily, May 23, 2019 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190523130200.htm Earth's Oldest Meteorite Collection Just Found in the Driest Place on the Planet By Brandon Specktor, May 24, 2019 https://www.livescience.com/65558-atacama-desert-has-meteors-for-days.html The paper is: A. Drouard, J. Gattacceca, A. Hutzler, P. Rochette, R. Braucher, D. Bourlès, ASTER Team, M. Gounelle, A. Morbidelli, V. Debaille, M. Van Ginneken, M. Valenzuela, Y. Quesnel, R. Martinez. The meteorite flux of the past 2 m.y. recorded in the Atacama Desert. Geology, May 22, 2019. Open Access https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/570818/the-meteorite-flux-of-the-past-2-m-y-recorded-in https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12644 Yours, Paul H.

Hello, I am ziggycardon! I am currently 23 years old and I'm from Belgium. Ever scince I was a small child, I've had a great interest in dinosaurs, animals and pretty much everything that has to do with nature and natural history! On a professional level I also work with animals as I am head of terrarium & aquarium in 3 different pet stores, but in my spare time I also keep and breed many reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates & exotix fish (although, I am tyring to take it a few steps back privately), and another thing I do in my spare time is to visit school with my collection of reptiles and other exotic animals (including some living fossils) as well as a whole load of other educational natural history material and ofcourse with fossils. One of my biggest interest in evolution and that's where my passion for the paleontology and zoology really meet! I bought my first fossil at the age of 12, but I've started collecting fossils as a hobby in late 2015 and I have build a small collection ever since. Unfortunatly I have never in my life found a fossil myself, something I really have to start doing as I find the entire process fascinating, but I am sure this forum might give me the push I need to get started! This week I started working on my first specialized fossil room which I hope to have finished in november this year. Hope to house most of my fossils there as well as some museum quality replica's and do some themed displays like a Kemkem display with a life sized spinosaurus skull replica and lot's of kemkem fossils, a ice age display, a eocene display, a marine reptile display and so on... Something I also wanted to mention, the reason I've found this forum is due to the fact that I had a 1,06 meter long lower jaw of a Prognathodon delivered today and the seller of the fossil who brought me the fossil told me about the forum after I told him about the upcoming fossil room and that I might get in contact here with people should I ever want a certain fossil that might be hard to uptain. Is there anything more to say about me? Well I've the most wonderfull girlfriend I can imagine who shares an interest in paleontology but not in the same passion as I do. I really love to visit musea and I love to travel. And besides fossils and animals my other hobbies & interests are centered about movies and television as I am in particular a huge fan of everything Middle Earth, Game of Thrones & Pirates of the Caribbean, collecting lot's of collectables from these franchises and met quite a lot of the actors who play in them! Including Sam Neill who we probably all now best as dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park! Here are some photo's of my fossil collection, my animals and my photo with Sam Neill. First of all, this is me proudly posing with an ammonite! My newly arrived prognathodon jaw My display cases: afbeeldinegn upload images afbeeldingne upload pictures img foto The things that I don't have room for to display yet... A few of my special pets My photo with Sam Neill A.K.A. dr. Alan Grant If you have any questions regarding my photo's or my collection or what I do or about anything, feel free to ask!

There are a lot meteorite and extraterrestrial videos from the SETI Institute web page. several include meteorites and asteroids. They included. Late, Late Heavy Bombardment - Bill Bottke (SETI Talks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MMYTzb0L_s Late Heavy Bombardment - Don Lowe (SETI Talks) SETI InstitutePublished on Aug 3, 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMm_0t5kcM 1I/‘Oumuamua, The First known Interstellar Visitor - Matija Cuk & Meg Schwamb (SETI Talks 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vAcv7JGhQ Sutters Mill Meteorite Fall - Peter Jenniskens (SETI Talks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSXmCrXbUo&list=PL7B4FE6C62DCB34E1&index=38 SETI Talks archive - http://seti.org/talks https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7B4FE6C62DCB34E1 Yours, Paul H.

Evidence suggests life on Earth started after meteorites splashed into warm little ponds, PhysOrg, October 2, 2017 https://phys.org/news/2017-10-evidence-life-earth-meteorites-splashed.html How did Life Start? Meteorites crashing into Darwin's Little Warm Ponds May Have been Trigger, by Megham Bartels, Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/2017/10/27/how-did-life-start-meteorites-crashing-darwins-warm-little-ponds-was-possible-675655.html The paper is: Pearce, B.K., Pudritz, R.E., Semenov, D.A. and Henning, T.K., 2017. Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 114 no. 43, pp. 11327-11332 http://www.pnas.org/content/114/43/11327 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.00434.pdf 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.

I found these in a bag I got from someone so I'm not sure where there from

Below are a selection of news articles, of varying sensationalism, to remind everyone what crowded and potentially dangerous solar, neighborhood that we occupy. NASA Asteroid Hunter Explains the Risks that Near Earth Objects Pose to Planet, Hanna Osborne, Newsweek, http://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-day-nasa-risk-earth-neos-629965 Space rock found to be travelling With Earth Scientists have discovered that Earth is being tailed by an Asteroid, Sean Martin, Express. http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/868068/ASTEROID-belt-nasa-end-of-the-world-earth-orbit Asteroid 2012 TC4: Space rock could come back and Smash into Earth in the near future The asteroid which had a near miss with Earth could come back and smash into the planet in the future, researchers have warned, Sean Martin, Express, Oct 13, 2017 http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/866149/Asteroid-2012-TC4-hit-Earth-end-of-the-world-nasa-esa How We Discovered, Lost, and Rediscovered the First Asteroid. It was a lot of math and staring through telescopes. Popular Mechanics http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a28667/how-we-discovered-lost-and-rediscovered-the-first-asteroid/ Samples Brought Back From Asteroid Itokawa Reveal 'Rubble Pile' Had a Violent Past, Curtin University Posted October 18, 2017 http://spaceref.com/asteroids/samples-brought-back-from-asteroid-itokawa-reveal-rubble-pile-had-a-violent-past.html Near-Earth Objects News https://watchers.news/category/near-earth-objects/ What I am worried about is not the asteroids that we know about. What worries me are the asteroids that we do not know about and appear abruptly out of the darkness like a drunk driver on a New Orleans street. Go read “Asteroid 2017 TF5 flew past Earth at 0.73 LD, 4 days before discovery, October 16, 2017 https://watchers.news/2017/10/16/asteroid-2017-tf5/ Unlike the dinosaurs, we have, if we want it, the technology to possibly defend ourselves from wayward asteroids. Yours, Paul H.

Large meteorite impacts drove plate-tectonic processes on the early Earth, PhysOrg, September 26, 2017 https://phys.org/news/2017-09-large-meteorite-impacts-drove-plate-tectonic.html Did meteorites create the Earth’s tectonic plates? Cosmos, September 26, 2017 https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/did-meteorites-create-the-earth-s-tectonic-plates The paper is: O’Neill, C., Marchi, S., Zhang, S., and Bottke, W., 2017. Impact-driven subduction on the Hadean Earth Nature Geoscience (2017) doi:10.1038/ngeo3029 Received 12 December 2016 Accepted 22 August 2017 Published online 25 September 2017 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo3029.html?foxtrotcallback=true Another article is: Australian rocks suggest early Earth may not have had plate tectonics, Cosmos, September 28, 2017 https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/tremors-shake-tectonic-plate-theory Plate Tectonics May Have Begun a Billion Years After Earth's Birth, Live Science, September 21, 2017 https://www.livescience.com/60478-plate-tectonics-gets-new-age.html The paper is: Johnson, T.E., Brown, M., Gardiner, N.J., Kirkland, C.L. and Smithies, R.H., 2017. Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction. Nature, 543(7644), pp.239-242. https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7644/abs/nature21383.html Yours, Paul H.

In 1911, near the Egyptian village of El Nakhla El Baharia was recovered a meteorite of martian origin. It belongs to a class of martian meteorites (called "nakhlites") that are derived from a ~1.3 billion year old sill or lava flow. They are mainly composed of magnesium, silica and iron. The Nakhla meteorite showed traces of a very particular form of silica, hydrated and amorphous: opal. This opal was the first in a few traces of martian opal. However, the hydrated silica in the Nakhla meteorite showed showed something rather special: it was very similar to the sort of opal that, on Earth, forms around hydrothermal vents. Around these vents, microbial life thrives and prospers. Could this suggest opalised microbial fossils on Mars? Are we this close to finding fossil life elsewhere in the universe? Further research will tell...

Myth busted: No link between gigantic asteroid break-up, rise in biodiversity, University of Copenhagen, February 3, 2017 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170203110156.htm https://phys.org/news/2017-01-meteorites-enrich-ocean-life.html the paper is; Lindskog, A., M. M. Costa, C.M.Ø. Rasmussen, J. N. Connelly, and M. E. Eriksson, 2017, Refined Ordovician timescale reveals no link between asteroid breakup and biodiversification. Nature Communications, 2017; 8: 14066 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14066 http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/ncomms14066 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14066 Yours, Paul H.

These 17,000 rocks from the bottom of the world could unlock the secrets of existence. Tales From the Vault: A monthly series By Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, December 7, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/12/07/this-hidden-smithsonian-vault-contains-the-oldest-things-in-the-solar-system/?postshare=8131483546732153&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.400cf8f8d42a https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/12/07/this-hidden-smithsonian-vault-contains-the-oldest-things-in-the-solar-system/ Yours, Paul H.

Hey TFF, I have been collecting meteorites for a few years now and since I am saving up to buy a new fossil, I would like to sell some of meteorites. Would you guys know where to sell meteorites? Thanks!!