Updated:
21 June 2007
Mineral
Sciences Collections Tour
Meteorites
Meteorite
Room Tour
Friday,
8 June 2007
Linda
Welzenbach, meteorite collections manager,
and the RTP students pose with their favorite
meteorites. Andrew Furness, (back row,
middle) turns red as he hoists a very
heavy specimen; the core of an asteroid.
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Meteorite
Room Tour
Friday,
8 June 2007
Wearing
non-latex protective gloves, Cecily handles
a meteorite which travelled at 43 –
100km/second before hitting earth.
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Meteorite
Room Tour
Friday,
8 June 2007
Kris
Rhodes excitedly holds Allende, the oldest
meteorite known, which contains the first
solids to condense out of the solar nebula
over 4.556 Billion years ago! Allende
also contains tiny diamonds from super
nova explosions of other solar systems.
And last, but not least, it contains amino
acids not of our world.
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Meteorite
Room Tour
Friday,
8 June 2007
Laura
Lagomarsino and Suzanne Pilaar get a workout
passing around the heavy core of an asteroid.
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Meteorite
Room Tour
Friday,
8 June 2007
Kris
Rhodes and others hold the famed “Martian
Meteorite,” ALH 84001, Achondrite,
resembling a flying saucer in its protective
case. The meteorite started the Astro-biology
program searching for water, and life,
on mars in the 80’s.
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Meteorite
Room Tour
Friday,
8 June 2007
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Photo
captions by Morgan Little
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