Moroccan Meteorite Professional

Joined June 2012
MeteoriteMaster retweeted
Meet #Moroccan 🇲🇦 meteorite hunters.. 🔽
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Alleged carboneceous chondrite fall Between Goulmima and Errachidia 25 august 2020 #Morocco 👉 bit.ly/32Pes4r
The NWA 7034 meteorite, also called Black Beauty, is 1 of 17 Martian breccia type meteorites. This meteorite was found in 2011, Morocco. Image credit: Institute of Meteoritics UNM #meteorcup20
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MeteoriteMaster retweeted
Not a lunar meteorite but a real piece of the moon (0.2g) sells for $855,00 at Sotheby's. Not Apollo returned material but from an umanned Soviet Luna-16 mission in 1970. This price represents double what they sold for in 1993. google.com/amp/s/phys.org/ne…
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MeteoriteMaster retweeted
Michigan man discovers rock used as doorstop is meteorite worth $100K nyp.st/2OacRBF
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In Moroccan desert meteorite hunters seek to strike it rich. But at the bottom of the (meteorite) pyramide it is a hard life bit.ly/2HAzsz1
MeteoriteMaster retweeted
Best not teach children the name of this meteorite :0/ The Fukang meteorite is a meteorite that was found in the mountains near Fukang, China in 2000. It is a pallasite—a type of stony–iron meteorite with olivine crystals. Its roughly 4.5 billion years old.
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#Meteorite diamonds 'came from lost planet,' reports @BBCScienceNews egu.eu/8WP0XC
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Researchers believe that diamonds found in a meteorite that struck the north African nation of Sudan in 2008 are remnants of a proto-planet that existed in the earliest days of our Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago. wapo.st/2J5mTx9
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MeteoriteMaster retweeted
“Meteorites are the remnants from that earliest phase of the earliest history of our solar system.” t.ted.com/uPKf4UP @minwadhwa @ASUMeteorites
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#Meteorite and STEM fans. Thought this was too good not to share.
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Dutch #meteorite story Broek in Waterland in English: goo.gl/bTNMuP