Hi all , this will be my first post here on the meteorite forum . I’ve been reading some of your post for the past year or so, I’m usually hangn’ down around on the Native-American Artifacts Forum . Anyway I have a few meteorite stories I thought I could share.
As a boy I had the fortune to move to Australia, Alice Springs in the Northen Territory, A.K.A. The Red Heart . It was a boys paradise , like the old west it had cowboys that really used there horses for work ,the miners swore and drank to much and the natives still lived on the land . The earth itself would give up it’s treasures in the way of gem stones and crystals, we even found treasure from outer-space, meteorites, it was the land of plenty ..
Henbury meteorites run about 90% Iron , 8% Nickel , 2% ?
The black round "thing" is a australite [tektite]
Some 4700 yr’s ago an iron mass came screaming across the sky at 40,000 Km Hr. , this mass exploded just before it impacted with earth . This explosive event has left it’s mark on the land in the form of 13 craters . The largest , an oval “double” crater measures 200m by 109m and is 15-18m deep. The smallest crater is only 10m across. This impact was witnessed by the Aboriginal people, there translated name for the craters [I’d say event ] is “sun walk, fire devil rock “ . Up into the 70's the Aboriginal people didn’t camp or go near the craters , this has probably since changed , but I think it could be said that this impact left it’s mark upon man as well .
I didn't find this australite, found by Finly a aboriginal stockman that worked for a friend .
Australite, a tektite from Australia, nearly all australites look as if they achieved orientation, but this maybe like saying rain drops achieve a stable orientation. In the early 70's tektites were ,by most believed to have been extraterrestrial in origin , a few believed that they were terrestrial , the Aborigines believed they were emu eyes , and used them for tools .
One funny story, from hunt’n meteorites near Henbury is this one about my Dads friend, the one that got us going out ,meteorite hunt’n . Anyway ,this guy goes out near Henbury , he parks his landcruiser in the shade of a very lonely tree, now you must understand he’s parked near/under this tree 5or6 times before . He grabs his state of the art B.F.O. metal detector, takes 5-6 steps away from the landcruiser and tries to ground his detector, he could not get that detector to null-out . As he swings around to go back to the landcruiser to “fix it” it nulls-out ,.... hmmmm long story short, the tail-gate wasn’t to far for that 40 lb’s . Anyway I’ve always liked that story
Sincerely ; Blindpig
As a boy I had the fortune to move to Australia, Alice Springs in the Northen Territory, A.K.A. The Red Heart . It was a boys paradise , like the old west it had cowboys that really used there horses for work ,the miners swore and drank to much and the natives still lived on the land . The earth itself would give up it’s treasures in the way of gem stones and crystals, we even found treasure from outer-space, meteorites, it was the land of plenty ..
Henbury meteorites run about 90% Iron , 8% Nickel , 2% ?
The black round "thing" is a australite [tektite]
Some 4700 yr’s ago an iron mass came screaming across the sky at 40,000 Km Hr. , this mass exploded just before it impacted with earth . This explosive event has left it’s mark on the land in the form of 13 craters . The largest , an oval “double” crater measures 200m by 109m and is 15-18m deep. The smallest crater is only 10m across. This impact was witnessed by the Aboriginal people, there translated name for the craters [I’d say event ] is “sun walk, fire devil rock “ . Up into the 70's the Aboriginal people didn’t camp or go near the craters , this has probably since changed , but I think it could be said that this impact left it’s mark upon man as well .
I didn't find this australite, found by Finly a aboriginal stockman that worked for a friend .
Australite, a tektite from Australia, nearly all australites look as if they achieved orientation, but this maybe like saying rain drops achieve a stable orientation. In the early 70's tektites were ,by most believed to have been extraterrestrial in origin , a few believed that they were terrestrial , the Aborigines believed they were emu eyes , and used them for tools .
One funny story, from hunt’n meteorites near Henbury is this one about my Dads friend, the one that got us going out ,meteorite hunt’n . Anyway ,this guy goes out near Henbury , he parks his landcruiser in the shade of a very lonely tree, now you must understand he’s parked near/under this tree 5or6 times before . He grabs his state of the art B.F.O. metal detector, takes 5-6 steps away from the landcruiser and tries to ground his detector, he could not get that detector to null-out . As he swings around to go back to the landcruiser to “fix it” it nulls-out ,.... hmmmm long story short, the tail-gate wasn’t to far for that 40 lb’s . Anyway I’ve always liked that story
Sincerely ; Blindpig
