Spacerock-UK meteorites at FLO

[FLO]

Liking the thought of starting a collection will you be stocking more examples? Maybe you could do meteorite of the month?

I don't want to give too much away but we do have plans

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[Grant_FLO]

We couldn't resist adding another to our range

Canyon Diablo Meteorites

We have just restocked across the range - these are proving very popular Christmas presents for some lucky people!

[Helen]

If you want some pictures from Meteor crater to give context to this we can oblige 

[John]

Canyon Diablo is a nice iron to have in a collection

The odd thing is that you can't buy it at the visitor centre and it's forbidden to search the area around the crater, unless by special licence.

[Stub Mandrel]

Please bear with us while we improve our photography. Our current studio setup really doesn't suit meteorites. For example these slices from the meteorite NWA869 contain a higher metal content than others, the metal glints beautifully in the light but capturing that in a photo is a challenge. The photo below really doesn't do them justice but we will improve over time. 

You need a lot more subs.

[Dave In Vermont]

Before it was known that the huge crater in Arizona was created by a meteorite, the iron deposits there - from the meteorite - was mined quite heavily. It has been pointed out that if you used old cast-iron skillets your Grandmom had, that was quite possibly where the iron came from. True story!

I have a nice hunk of this fall (a 'fall' is what meteorite-heads call the events and the chunks found from it), and it's very dense indeed. Highly magnetic, too. Pieces of this have a very nice and smooth black 'fusion-crust.' That's what the blackened exterior of these critters is called. Meteorite collecting is quite addictive, and can require deep-pockets at that. Tiny little (weighed in milligrams) pieces of some that have been analyzed and found to be Martian in in their source can cost thousands of $£€'s. Slightly less are pieces found to be from the Moon.

Be sure of your source before plunking down any money though. There are occasionly to be found people selling rocks that were being used to pave their driveway. "Buy a jen-you-ween hunk'o Halley's Comet!"

Woof -

Dave

[MAN or ASTROMAN]

Everytime I scroll past this 'Spacerock' banner,I think of the band 'Hawkwind'!

[John]

I have a nice hunk of this fall (a 'fall' is what meteorite-heads call the events and the chunks found from it), and it's very dense indeed. Highly magnetic, too. Pieces of this have a very nice and smooth black 'fusion-crust.' That's what the blackened exterior of these critters is called. Meteorite collecting is quite addictive, and can require deep-pockets at that. Tiny little (weighed in milligrams) pieces of some that have been analyzed and found to be Martian in in their source can cost thousands of $£€'s. Slightly less are pieces found to be from the Moon....

The total recovered weight of known Martian meteorites is quite a lot larger than that of Lunar so the market pricing reflects that.

[FLO]

Before it was known that the huge crater in Arizona was created by a meteorite, the iron deposits there - from the meteorite - was mined quite heavily. It has been pointed out that if you used old cast-iron skillets your Grandmom had, that was quite possibly where the iron came from. True story!

I doubt that  

I am not going to pretend I am a meteorite expert but I have a new-found interest. From what I hear Barringer spent 27 years trying to find the main mass of Canyon Diablo but without success. Most of the meteorite vaporised on impact. The total recovered weight, though still substantial, is just a fraction of the overall mass of the impacting object. The largest pieces recovered do weigh a few hundred KG each but these are in museums, not made into your gran's pots and pans. 

Steve

[Stub Mandrel]

How do large solid bodies form in space? I struggle to understand how interstellar dust can form into lumps of rock. Planets, yes I can see how billions of tons of dust falling into a gravity well will melt, but put a pile of gravel or sand into space and leave it for a billion or two years, and it isn't going to coalesce into a solid lump - or is it?

[BinocularSky]

Iron meteorites are the remnants of shettered cores of shattered asteroids - large enough to have differentiated into core and non-core, i.e. big brutes.

[michaelmorris]

Tiny little (weighed in milligrams) pieces of some that have been analyzed and found to be Martian in in their source can cost thousands of $£€'s.

I recently bought a nice framed milligramme sized piece of a Mars meteorite from Spacerocks for surprisingly little (just £35).

[Stub Mandrel]

This http://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html suggests asteroids are themselves fragments of larger bodies disrupted by the gas giants.

I can buy that.

I can see how comets can be held together by condensed 'ices' too.

[Dave In Vermont]

I recently bought a nice framed milligramme sized piece of a Mars meteorite from Spacerocks for surprisingly little (just £35).

Geeze! The prices have gone through the floorboards! I'm there ....

Thanks for the link!

Dave

[beamer3.6m]

It would be useful to have a size comparison in the shots from FLO.

[Stub Mandrel]

It would be useful to have a size comparison in the shots from FLO.

If you visit Flo, each meteorite sample is pictured next to a Lego Imperial Stormtrooper

[beamer3.6m]

If you visit Flo, each meteorite sample is pictured next to a Lego Imperial Stormtrooper

I stand corrected.

Could I suggest a ruler

[BinocularSky]

If it's any help, I have a shrapnel fragment of Sikhote-Alin that came from David Bryant (Spacerocks-UK); it weighs 15g. The bits of Canyon Diablo were a bit bigger, but still fitted in the same presentation box.

[glowjet]

How do large solid bodies form in space? I struggle to understand how interstellar dust can form into lumps of rock. Planets, yes I can see how billions of tons of dust falling into a gravity well will melt, but put a pile of gravel or sand into space and leave it for a billion or two years, and it isn't going to coalesce into a solid lump - or is it?

There is a very interesting and popular little book, written by Dr John Gribbin, "Stardust", that should help to give an understanding of how matter formed in space, first published in 2000, but copies can be had quite cheaply now, for almost just the postage cost, from that large online book outlet

[FLO]

If you visit Flo, each meteorite sample is pictured next to a Lego Imperial Stormtrooper

I stand corrected.

Could I suggest a ruler

We have noticed the grown-ups are using a little metric cube in their photos so we probably ought to do the same. It's a pity though, I was thinking Darth Vader would be perfect for the Campo Del Cielo 

Steve

[jam1e1]

I've just shown the pic to my 4yo , he now thinks all meteorites come with Lego and the space troopers also came to earth with the meteorite ......

[Stub Mandrel]

You'd better show him this picture of the Death Star in orbit around Saturn:

[Dinsdale Piranha]

We have noticed the grown-ups are using a little metric cube in their photos so we probably ought to do the same. It's a pity though, I was thinking Darth Vader would be perfect for the Campo Del Cielo 

Steve

Maybe your pictures could include both ?

I do like the little Star Wars figures, but understand why people may want the little metric cube...

I was lucky enough to receive two meteorites for Christmas from my sons, and they are the biz. Really pleased with them

[Dave In Vermont]

I was planning to show a good picture of a piece of the Canyon del Diablo fall from Arizona. But it seems I'm unable to insert the picture from my 'puter.

Ah well -

Dave

[Celeste]

Just saw these on your site, the pic for the Campo Del Cielo rocks, the top right one.....do you have that exact one in store still? I ask because it looks like it has a heart on it. I'd love to have that rock