My father did a lot of writing in his life. Mostly non-fiction. Two things he said about writing in general have stuck with me. Number One is “Don’t get it right, get it written.” For someone who strove to write what he thought was true, and then defend it, this is a remarkable quote. But [...]
Category: meteorites
One man — 6,000 meteorites
During the 1970’s and ’80’s the field of meteoritics was totally revolutionized by the sudden collection of thousands and thousands of meteorites from Antarctica. I can’t remember when I first heard about meteorites being found in Antarctica in huge quantities. … That lack of knowledge made for some interesting research when I started trying to [...]
Friday fun — rocks, crops, pumps
Oh! Golly it’s Friday. I was totally immersed in research. Well, so here are my studies for the day. First, continuing my thoughts on meteorites, I discovered that there is a quarry in Sweden where meteorites, that fell hundreds of millions of years ago are preserved in the limestone. We aren’t talking big stuff, but [...]
Falling rock — Update
(I added citations to the story and rearranged my poor chronology!) I’ve been looking up stories about meteorites and impact craters in Iowa. (Mostly.) There are two very ancient and very large impact structures, one 74 millions years old near Manson, Iowa and the second near Decorah, from 458 million years ago. Both structures were [...]
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