Puzzle Solved
The subject of one of Steve's earlier photo puzzles..
From: www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4120907754/
"In contrast with earth alloys, the microgravity environment and long cooling times in the interior of their parent asteroids allowed the meteoritic phases to grow into large, intermixed three-dimensional crystalline structures.
Iron-nickel meteorites make up about 6% of those striking Earth (most are stony chondrites) and they come from certain collisions of M-type asteroids that fragment their metal cores.
This is pallasite — popularized as kryptonite in Superman Returns — and first discovered in Magadan, Russia a couple months after my birth. Hmmm.....
The truth is out there. =)
Most of the Seymchan Meterorite is at the Russian Academy of Sciences (which I recently visited and found captivating.. the prior puzzle no less). I also voyaged through Eastern Russia near Magadan years ago…
All of these peculiar connections are new to me as I was researching this summary. I just bought this heavy slice in Santa Fe because it seemed so radiant and resplendent…."
Puzzle Solved
The subject of one of Steve's earlier photo puzzles..
From: www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4120907754/
"In contrast with earth alloys, the microgravity environment and long cooling times in the interior of their parent asteroids allowed the meteoritic phases to grow into large, intermixed three-dimensional crystalline structures.
Iron-nickel meteorites make up about 6% of those striking Earth (most are stony chondrites) and they come from certain collisions of M-type asteroids that fragment their metal cores.
This is pallasite — popularized as kryptonite in Superman Returns — and first discovered in Magadan, Russia a couple months after my birth. Hmmm.....
The truth is out there. =)
Most of the Seymchan Meterorite is at the Russian Academy of Sciences (which I recently visited and found captivating.. the prior puzzle no less). I also voyaged through Eastern Russia near Magadan years ago…
All of these peculiar connections are new to me as I was researching this summary. I just bought this heavy slice in Santa Fe because it seemed so radiant and resplendent…."