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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
23 responses to “What’s That? (89)”
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From Falcon 1 ?
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A metal that’s been grown as a crystal?
Maybe a byproduct of some sort of deposition process?
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Looks crystalline in structure, but the raised, dimensional surface seems to rule out a cross section slice of meteorite & the surface ‘lines’ seem to wrap around the edges, rather than cut through…..I give!?!
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Bingo BWJones and Shamagu!
In contrast with earth alloys, the microgravity environment and long cooling times in the interior of their parent asteroids allowed the meteoritic phases to grow into large, intermixed three-dimensional crystalline structures.
Iron-nickel meteorites make up about 6% of those striking Earth (most are stony chondrites) and they come from certain collisions of M-type asteroids that fragment their metal cores.
This is pallasite — popularized as kryptonite in Superman Returns — and first discovered in Magadan, Russia a couple months after my birth. Hmmm…..
The truth is out there. =)
Most of the Seymchan Meterorite is at the Russian Academy of Sciences (which I recently visited and found captivating.. the prior puzzle no less). I also voyaged through Eastern Russia near Magadan years ago…
All of these peculiar connections are new to me as I was researching this summary. I just bought this heavy slice in Santa Fe because it seemed so radiant and resplendent….
So actually, most of you are right, even venettaj – something I took home because it was shiny!
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space-age circuit board?
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson]
hey steve
flic.kr/p/HS4p1T
can you convince the good folks in Murchison Australia to paint one of their cows aka the meteorite!!
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