Meteorites

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I love meteorites i have a collection of four and cherish them so much i love the fact hey have came from outer space any meteorite mad fans here ?

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I love watching them in the sky and I do think they are interesting but I dont think its one of my obsessions

indeed, the remains of the creation of our system, very interesting indeed, u r lucky to have such rocks. I have nothing like that but would like to have them someday.

Yeah i want a really big meteorite something maybe fom mars a my biggest is pretty big and a great shape,

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I used to have a piece of one, I remember how heavy it was relative to it's size. The guy I got it from told me not to sleep w/ it near me at fiirst, so of course I slept w/ it under my pillow that very night. Had weird dreams as I recall, but feel it could have just been the power of suggestion. Don't know whatever happened to it. I moved a lot back then. Did however find 3 fulgrities (Proably spelled that wrong pieces of stuff hit by lighting, 1 twig and 2 other ones) I thought I'd never see again when I cleaned out my storage. Would like to get another metorite fragment through. It was really cool contemplating the travels it had entailed just to reach my hands.

Thats what i like about them so much they travel 100000's of miles through space and its in your hands its amazing i think,

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The Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, was formed by the same meteorite that killed the dinosaurs.

Tim

I'd love a meteorite! But I've only ever seen one, in the Jodrell Bank visitor centre. They wouldn't let me take it home

How to get your own (small) meteorites.

1) Get a plastic bowl about 12 to 18 inches in diameter.

2) Punch one or two small holes in the bottom (to let the rain out).

3) Take your bowl up to the roof and leave it there for six to eight weeks.

4) After you bring it back down you will see some dust and debris in the bottom, go over this with a magnet.

5) What's sticking to the magnet are fragments of meteors reduced to dust as they hit the atmosphere.

Ed Almos

I unfortunatly do not have a meteorite for my collection of pretty and interesting things... Where can I find one?

I've read of huge clouds of iron from supernovas. With enough of those around I don't doubt that there will be little pellets around all the time.

You can get them from ebay i would like to find them myself,if anybody wants to chat about meteorites over msn or pm feel free to pm me,

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