Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2022

The Rock Garden

 

My grandmother's rocks. My grandmother was a rock hound. They traveled all over the country in a camper van and she would collect interesting rocks. I filled up the back of my Nissan truck with as many as I could load up about fifteen years ago. Rescue operation went underway last few days at the little house in the swamp. The rocks were in two flower beds. Some buried pretty deep. Some big ones too. A couple of real big ones. Saved as many as I could. Two small truckloads. 


Sunday, November 10, 2019

It Came from the Sky



Meteorites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Meteorite



Library book I found on the history and how it became a profit oriented cutthroat business.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christopher-cokinos/the-fallen-sky/


Murnpeowie meteorite, an iron meteorite with regmaglypts resembling thumbprints
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1803-rain-rocks-helped-establish-existence-meteorites-180963017/

https://listverse.com/2017/02/03/10-times-meteors-have-impacted-history/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/king-tuts-dagger-was-made-meteorite-180959294/?no-ist



Meteorite, iron, found in Henbury, Australia, 1931 - Higgins Armory
http://mentalfloss.com/article/53105/5-unlucky-things-were-hit-meteorites

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/2/130215-meteorite-earth-hit-science-space-peary-american-museum-natural-history/