Hunting for Fragments of the Gebel Kamil meteorite SW Egypt. The 45m diameter Kamil crater was originally located by Vincenzo de Michele using Google Earth satellite imagery. Approximately 1600 kg of iron meteorite fragments were located during joint Italian-Egyptian expeditions in 2009 and 2010 led by Dr Luigi Folco. Dr Folco, who did his…
The Hoba iron meteorite was found in 1920 in Namibia. The single slab-like mass measures 2.7m x 2.7m x 0.9m and weighs in excess of 60 tons. Due to its large mass it has never been moved from its original site. It is the largest single intact meteorite in the world. (image: wikipedia) Experts can…
(Image: Wikimedia) It has now been well over a week since I made the last entry on this blog. Sorry about that! But I do have a good excuse. Well, sort of a good excuse anyway. It is now only a few days until the start of the Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (MetSoc) in New…
Astronaut David S. Scott using the Lunar Rover during the Apollo 15 Mission (Image: NASA) It’s probably not the best of times for human space exploration just at the moment. One sign of this was President Obama’s announced cancellation of the NASA’s Constellation program back in early February. The situation is still up for discussion…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 