Tuesday, January 8, 2008
TCU’s Monnig Museum acquires big slice of space rock
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Western Australia is prime meteorite collecting country because its barren expanse makes fallen space debris easy to spot. The Mundrabilla meteorite (named for the town in Western Australia where it was located in 1966) is one of the largest known iron-composition space stones in existence, and a slice of it has recently been acquired by the Monnig Meteorite Gallery at Texas Christian University.
At 45 pounds and about two by three feet in size, the Monnig's slice (obtained from a dealer in Frankfurt, Germany who's referred to as "one of the few people able to slice large masses" - a dubious-sounding distinction) will be the only substantial piece of the Mundrabilla to reside here in the U.S. of A., with the others making their homes in Australia and Europe.
posted by JM
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usje Anonymous
Wowwee - what a cute guy holding that rock! Forget about the rock- Who is that hunk?
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