[meteorite-list] Thin Section-- The Motion Picture

[Darren Garrison]

A few years back there was a medical project where someone took frozen corpses,
embedded them in something, and then shaved them down a millimeter or so at a
time, taking a photo at each slice.  I've wished that someone would do that with
some low-metamorphic grade meteorites.  Today I stumbled across a site that
doesn't have it done with photos, but has the next best thing-- tomographic
segments of a few meteorites.  The web site has videos made from some of the
collections of images:

http://research.amnh.org/users/debel/meteorites/

I took the images of Semarkona and made them into AVI files

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/temp/

using the xvid codec, found here: 

http://www.xvid.org/