[meteorite-list] Today's P.O.D.

[Jim Strope]

Here are some more photos of todays Gibeon Picture of the Day for your 
viewing pleasure:

http://209.238.151.128/gibeon5200b.JPG

http://209.238.151.128/gibeon5200c.JPG

http://209.238.151.128/gibeon5200d.JPG

Jim Strope
421 Fourth Street
Glen Dale, WV  26038

http://www.catchafallingstar.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Today's P.O.D.


>> http://www.geocities.com/spacerocksinc/January18.html
>
>> A big, beautiful Gibeon courtesy of Jim Strope.  Looks like
>> a Vulcan or Klingon hand-to-hand-combat weapon... -- Rob
>
> To me it immediately looked like a horse's or a pig's skull :-)
>
> Anyway, it is a very interesting piece that also raises questions
> about its history -- was it part of a larger mass, did it enter
> the Earth's atmosphere as an independent piece, does it have a
> distorted Widmanstaetten structure, a heat-affected rim, etc.
> (Of course, it would be a sin to cut and etch it!)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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