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Autor:
John Diemer, Howard Plotkin
Publikováno v:
Earth Sciences History. 33:150-175
Canada's Iron Creek meteorite, a 320 lb (145 kg) Group IIIAB medium octahedrite iron, was long venerated by the First Nations in Alberta as their sacred Manitou Stone, but it was taken without authority from them by Methodist missionaries in 1866. Th
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 47:929-946
– The Old Woman meteorite, discovered in March 1976 by two prospectors searching for a fabled lost Spanish gold mine in mountains ∼270 km east of Los Angeles, has achieved the status of a legend among meteorite hunters and collectors. The questio
Autor:
Roy S. Clarke, Howard Plotkin
Publikováno v:
Earth Sciences History. 31:229-246
The Goose Lake meteorite, a 2,573 lb (1,167 kg) iron, was found by three deer hunters on lava beds in the Modoc National Forest in northeast California in October, 1938. Although several California persons wanted possession of the meteorite for vario
Autor:
Kimberly T. Tait, Howard Plotkin
Publikováno v:
Earth Sciences History. 30:240-266
Aerial photographs of Chubb Crater, a striking 3.4 km-wide circular basin in the far north of Quebec, led the Ontario prospector Fred W. Chubb to think it might be an extinct volcano, and possibly the site of a diamond-bearing diatreme. V. Ben Meen,
Autor:
Roy S. Clarke, Howard Plotkin
Publikováno v:
Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 44:1161-1177
Stuart H. Perry (1874-1957), an influential Michigan newspaper editor and publisher and a vice president of the Associated Press, developed a passionate interest in collecting and studying meteorites in the 1920s and 1930s. Firmly believing that mete
Autor:
Roy S. Clarke, Howard Plotkin
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 43:1741-1756
Harvey Nininger successfully petitioned the American Astronomical Society to pass a motion in support of nationalizing Meteor Crater, Arizona, at its June 1948 meeting. He alleged that the Barringer family, who held title to the crater, was depriving
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Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 256:237-265
Meteoritics at the Smithsonian Institution is intimately linked to the broader growth of the science, and traces its roots through influential individuals and meteorites from the late 18th century to the dawn of the 21st century. The Institution was
Autor:
Howard Plotkin
Publikováno v:
Earth Sciences History. 24:63-80
Henry A. Ward (1834-1906), the celebrated founder and owner of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, one of the most interesting and significant North American scientific institutions in the late 19th century, was also perhaps the shrewdest and most
Autor:
Howard Plotkin
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Journal for the History of Astronomy. 47:106-107
Autor:
Howard Plotkin
Publikováno v:
Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 45:336-338