Posts Tagged With: Geoffrey Notkin
The Millbillillie Meteorite: Part of the Asteroid Vesta?
The Millbillillie eucrite belongs to one of the rarest meteorite types. It is part of the HED group, which also includes howardites and diogenites. Eucrites are achondrites, meaning “not chondrites,” so they are lacking in chondrules—the small, spherical, pre-solar grains that give the common chondrites their name. Millbillillie meteorites are volcanic rock from other worlds, &hellip Continue reading
Meteorite Men the Television Show
Sometimes dreams do come true: The author (above left) and Steve Arnold with a 230-lb Brenham pallasite recovered during the filming of Meteorite Men. The meteorite was buried about four feet underground and had to be excavated using a back hoe. Photograph by Caroline Palmer © Aerolite Meteorites. So, after seventeen months of work Meteorite &hellip Continue reading
A Cool New Science Magazine and a Very Cool New Meteorite Article
Unlike many of my colleagues, I really enjoy doing media interviews, especially when I have the pleasure of working with a particularly thoughtful, bright and inventive journalist. A few weeks ago, I received a call from Eleanor Perry-Smith, a writer at Northwestern University in Illinois. She was working on a the premiere issue of a &hellip Continue reading
The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show 2009 Here it Comes Again
It was back in 1998 that I made my first journey to the Tucson gem and mineral shows. I was living just outside of New York City at the time, and although I had already fallen in love with Arizona as a ten year-old boy, and had traveled extensively across my favorite state in the &hellip Continue reading
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Meteorite Men on Location 
Meteorite Men on Twitter- MeteoriteMen: #PR: Great! RT @UnderBritishSky: Yay just heard that @meteoritemen is coming to UK Tv on Discovery Science in the next month
- MeteoriteMen: #PR: Happy Birthday Caleigh from the whole @MeteoriteMen team! RT @rhaskiell: @CaleighH4 14th birthday. Could you send her a birthday wish?
- MeteoriteMen: #PR: What has been your favorite part? RT @betsyrmiller: @MeteoriteMen @TwilightDew7 @ScienceChannel I've also been watching since this AM!
- MeteoriteMen: #PR: Yay! > RT @TwilightDew7: Doing a happy dance because there is a @MeteoriteMen Marathon on @ScienceChannel http://t.co/rSsCiVTt
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- MeteoriteMen: RT @optwebgal: Hey! Guess what? @geoffnotkin will be at #SCAE2012 this year! How awesome is that!?! 7/14/12 Go!
- MeteoriteMen: URGENT! Support our brave friend @CaptPaulWatson who is detained in Germany http://t.co/RmkrMY7E @SeaShepherd #green #eco
- MeteoriteMen: Got space rock? Cool #Ebay #auctions ending today! http://t.co/9JdH2vSN #meteorites #gems #astronomy #gifts #SpaceTweeps
- MeteoriteMen: #PR: Love this video! "Spacerock Paper Scissors" http://t.co/d2400HIP
- MeteoriteMen: #PR: RT @Minelab: What questions will you have for @geoffnotkin from @MeteoriteMen at NMDD? Tweet them using #NMDD, get live responses 5/19!
- MeteoriteMen: @Geologist62 We do our best, but it's an uphill battle : )
- MeteoriteMen: Mission to asteroid raises questions: http://t.co/HIvk1Xhq #meteorites #astronomy #NASA #asteroids #Vesta #Dawn
- MeteoriteMen: Too bad author doesn't know the difference between "meteor" and "meteorite." No such thing as a "pallasite meteor" : )
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Buzzard Coulee Hunt, April 2009