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	Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites \| American Museum of Natural History
		This is the second-largest surviving fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite that formed Meteor Crater; it probably broke off when the main mass hit the atmosphere.
		Meteorite specialist Harvey Nininger discovered them in 1946 by attaching a magnet to the end of a cane and sweeping it around the crater.
		This block of limestone, as tall as the height of this hall's ceiling, was thrown up during the explosive formation of the crater and landed several feet from the rim.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/permanent/meteorites/impacts/crater.php (843 words)

	Canyon Diablo Meteorite
		The Canyon Diablo crater, and quite likely its iron meterorites, were known to the Indians before the white man came to Arizona.
		While the meteorites were gaining recognition, the origin of the crater remained in doubt.
		The largest Canyon Diablo recovered is the 639 Kg on display in the Meteor Crater Museum.
	www.alaska.net /~meteor/CDinfo.htm (1269 words)

	canyon diablo meteorites
		The Canyon Diablo Meteorite comes from the plains around the faous Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, 35 miles east of Flagstaff.
		The meteorite is named after the nearest landmark, which is the winding, dry, Canyon Diablo 3 miles west of the impact site.
		A meteorite of this great size and traveling at the speed required to blow such a crater in the Arizona plains also generated enough kinetic energy to generate enough heat to vaporize the meteorite nearly completely.
	www.catchafallingstar.com /canyondiablo.htm (456 words)

	Meteorites - Calgary Coin Gallery
		The meteorite fragmented and partly vaporized on impact, with the largest fragment currently known at 0.639 tons (the Holsinger Meteorite which was found inside the crater).
		The Millbillillie meteorite is classified as a Eucrite (AEUC) Achondrite, containing a mixture of granulitic, fragmental breccias and melted material as well as a network of glassy veins and various features resulting from the shock of impacts that it sustained billions of years prior to falling to earth.
		The Nantan meteorite was recorded to have fallen in Nandan County of Guangxi Province, China, in May of 1516 during the Ming Dynasty.
	www.calgarycoin.com /antiquities/antmeteor.htm (1543 words)

	CHAPTER XI. THE METEORITE MOUNTAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TEN miles southeast of Cañon Diablo station on the Santa Fé Pacific Railroad, stands the Meteorite Mountain of Arizona, on a wide, open plain of the Colorado Plateau.
		All over the meteorite zone are scattered about small pieces of iron which he calls ‘‘“iron shale.”’’ It is analogous to the true meteorite, but is‘‘“burnt’’’ or ‘‘“dead.”’’ He regards these bits of iron as dead sparks from a celestial forge, which fell from the meteorite as it blazed through the heavens.
		When the meteorite was first discovered by a Mexican sheep herder he supposed that he had found a large piece of silver, because of its great weight and luster, but he was soon informed of his mistake.
	digital.library.arizona.edu /southwest/azsk/body.1_div.15.html (2205 words)

	Meteorite Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This meteorite, found in 1891, was most likely a fragment of an asteroid and arrived on Earth about 50,000 years ago.
		The Skihote-Alin meteorite is the largest observed meteorite fall in modern history.
		The meteorite arrived as a shower of fireballs on February 12, 1947 in the Sikhote-alin Mountains of Russia.
	www.namnmeteors.org /meteorites.html (129 words)

	METEORITES at Bestcrystals.com
		This occurred because the meteorite broke up at a rather low altitude and was not subjected to the intense ablation that would have smoothed its surface.
		This meteorite was first discovered in 1836, although it was known to the local inhabitants prior to that date.
		A small percentage of that vapor was propelled into the ionosphere by the impact explosion through the hole punched in the earth's dense atmosphere.
	www.bestcrystals.com /meteorite.html (638 words)

	The Montréal Planetarium — What's Up — Meteorites, Messengers from Space
		Canyon Diablo meteorite pierced by a cavity that previously held a graphite nodule.
		Meteorites were found up to 12 kilometres from the centre of the crater, with a high concentration in the first three kilometres.
		Canyon Diablo is composed mainly of iron mixed with 7.1% nickel, 1% carbon, 1% sulfur, 0.46% cobalt, 0.26% phosphorus, 320 parts per million germanium, 80 ppm gallium, and 1.9 ppm iridium.
	www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca /planetarium/Information/Expo_Meteorites/Vedettes/canyondiablo_a.html (690 words)

	Meteorite.fr - Basics - Meteorites in History
		Throughout the ages, meteorites were venerated as sacred objects by different cultures and ancient civilizations.
		The spectacular fall of a meteorite, accompanied by light and sound phenomena, such as falling stars, smoke, thunder, and sonic booms, has always kindled the human imagination, evoking fear and awe in everyone who witnesses such an event.
		The Winona meteorite was found in a stone cist in the prehistoric Elden pueblo, Arizona, in 1928.
	www.meteorite.fr /en/basics/history.htm (1337 words)

	Meteorite Kit Specimen Descriptions
		This is evidence of an iron meteorite's durability and resistance to fracturing and weathering.
		Meteoritic diamonds, the high-pressure form of carbon within meteorites, are also occasionally found in some iron meteorites.
		The meteorite could not be dug out of the clay with a knife, so he returned with a shovel and a wheelbarrow to extract the meteorite and take it home.
	www.meteoritekit.com /about/index.html (2956 words)

	Canyon diablo meteorite, meteorite prices, meteorite showers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meteorites found at the crater are called Canyon Diablo meteorites, canyon diablo meteorite.
		Canyon Diablo is the name of the meteorite that caused the Meteor Crater impact canyon diablo meteorite.
		Canyon Diablo meteorites contain seven times more nickel 59 than do recovered spheroids, meaning they had come from the surface or outer shell of the.
	www.autosafetytv.com /meteorite/canyon_diablo_meteorite.html (276 words)

	Rutgers Researchers To Investigate Canyon Diablo Meteorite (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Researchers studying remains of the Canyon Diablo impactor have been able to describe the changing character of the meteoroid as it traversed Earth's atmosphere and hit its surface, ascertain how the remaining fragments were formed, and determine where within the body of the meteoroid the fragments originated.
		The Canyon Diablo impactor was the object responsible for excavating Meteor Crater, the famous Arizona landmark.
		Moreover, the impact modeling suggests that the impact velocity of Canyon Diablo was higher than the velocity normally assumed for such an impact.
	neo.jpl.nasa.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /news/news031.html (767 words)

	Starborn Creations Meteorite Information
		Upon impact, the meteorite broke into countless smaller pieces which are scattered over 200 square miles.
		meteorite fell to earth aproximately 50,000 years ago blasting out a crater over 500 feet across and 75 feet deep.
		Most of the meteorite vaporized on impact, but some fragments remained with the largest piece weighing 1,400 lbs.
	www.starborncreations.com /Merchant/Meteoriteinfo.htm (294 words)

	Harvey Nininger Canyon Diablo Meteorite Metallic Spheroids
		Canyon Diablo Metallic Spheroids are found in the soil surrounding the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona.
		Harvey H. Nininger realised that these spheroids probably represented the missing main mass of the Canyon Diablo meteorite that others had believed would still be found buried deep within the crater.
		I could think of no other way to account for these little droplets, two and a half times as rich in nickel as similar sized irregular fragments, than that they were condensation droplets from a meteoritic cloud produced by the explosion which Moulton had hypothesized.
	www.meteorites.com.au /features/spheroids.html (730 words)

	Great Selection of Rocks and Minerals: Mama's Minerals
		And while meteorites and meteorite fragments have been found in Meteor Crater, a large number have also been found just a few miles to the west in Canyon Diablo.
		They are thought to be produced during a meteorite's blazing flight through the earth's atmosphere, when minerals with a lower melting point vaporize off the surface of the meteorite, leaving small (or sometimes rather large) cavities in their wake.
		Canyon Diablo meteorites are no longer available due to their increasing rarity; those currently being offered for sale are typically from private collections or stock purchased years ago.
	www.mamasminerals.com /lmrhfmeteoritesdiablo.html (246 words)

	Meteorites, Meteorites and Impacts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the Martian meteorites, known as ALH84001 (left), is believed to show evidence of early life on Mars.
		A "fall" means the meteorite was witnessed by someone as it fell from the sky.
		Included are all known meteorites (4660 in all, weighing a total of 494625 kg) in the period 1740-1990 (excluding meteorites found in Antarctica).
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /nineplanets/nineplanets/meteorites.html (1499 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Diamond Deception \| Diamonds in the Sky
		The scientists theorized that the meteorite's diamonds were born during a cataclysmic collision out in the asteroid belt.
		Others maintain that carbon atoms (or, in a minority opinion, grains of meteoritic fl graphite) within the hurtling meteorite itself transformed instantly into diamond during the extraordinary heat and shock of impact.
		Whatever the origin of meteorite diamonds, some scientists believe they have found evidence that the colossal cloud of dust thought to be thrown up into the atmosphere in the wake of such impacts may spread newly formed diamond dust all around the world.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/diamond/sky.html (879 words)

	Southwestern Sales
		The meteorite, estimated to weigh 63,000 tons, hit the earth traveling approx 45,000 miles per hour between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago.
		Greater than 95% of the meteorite vaporized on impact and these fragments are becoming extremely scarce.
		This is a group IA iron meteorite classed as coarse octahedrite.
	www.southwesternsales.net /meteorites/canyon.html (155 words)

	Diamonds in meteorites
		In a stony meteorite which fell in September 1886, near Novo-Urei, they found grayish grains which were regarded as diamonds.
		Section of Canyon Diablo meteorite showing the area in the center of the meteoritic iron from which the diamonds were removed.
		Recently small fl grains embedded in a slice from a Canyon Diablo iron have been identified by means of the x-ray powder spectrum method and by microscopic examination as diamonds.
	www.minsocam.org /msa/collectors_corner/arc/diamondm.htm (879 words)

	Geologic Time: Age of the Earth
		Nevertheless, scientists have been able to determine the probable age of the Solar System and to calculate an age for the Earth by assuming that the Earth and the rest of the solid bodies in the Solar System formed at the same time and are, therefore, of the same age.
		The ages of Earth and Moon rocks and of meteorites are measured by the decay of long-lived radioactive isotopes of elements that occur naturally in rocks and minerals and that decay with half lives of 700 million to more than 100 billion years to stable isotopes of other elements.
		The best age for the Earth comes not from dating individual rocks but by considering the Earth and meteorites as part of the same evolving system in which the isotopic composition of lead, specifically the ratio of lead-207 to lead-206 changes over time owing to the decay of radioactive uranium-235 and uranium-238, respectively.
	pubs.usgs.gov /gip/geotime/age.html (770 words)

	Canyon Diablo Meteorites
		From Canyon Diablo near Winslow, Arizona about 40 miles east of Flagstaff.
		The majority of the meteorid was vaporized and only comparatively small fragments of the giant iron body have been found.
		Meteorite specimens have been collected from the area since the late 1880's.
	manzanitalab.com /store.php?crn=215 (224 words)

	Iron Meteorite Index,Meteorites for Sale,Buy Meteorites,Meteorite Dealer,
		The Canyon Diablo Meteorite is classified as a Course Iron Octahedrite (IA) and is roughly 92% Iron and 7% Nickel.
		The Nantan Meteorite was believed to have fallen in the Guanqxi Province of China in May of 1516.
		The Nantan Meteorite is classified as a Course Octrahedrite (II-CD) and is 92.35% Iron and 6.96% Nickel.
	www.meteoritesplus.com /ironmeteoritesindex.html (322 words)

	eBay - canyon diablo ..., Rocks, Fossils, Minerals, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CANYON DIABLO Iron METEORITE etched 43 grams rm60
		CANYON DIABLO Iron METEORITE etched 19 grams rm60
		20 meteorites canyon diablo SPHEROIDS of Meteor Crater
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=canyon+diablo+...&krd=1 (349 words)

	Canyon Diablo Products
		METEORITE CANYON DIABLO METEOR CRATER ARIZONA 26 GRAMS
		METEORITE CANYON DIABLO METEOR CRATER ARIZONA 6 GRAMS
		25 SPHEROIDS from Canyon Diablo Meteor Crater meteorite
	charlesbath.com /canyon-diablo.html (181 words)

	Canyon Diablo Meteorite
		Over the years, many of these meteorites have been melted down and made into tools, etc...These specimens we offer were selected for their aritistic and aesthetic value as well as for their meteoritic collectibility!
		Iron Meteorites: Believed to be the core material from what most likely was another "planetary" type body; (or very large asteroid).
		Octahedrites: most iron meteorites contain between 7 percent and 13 percent nickel.
	www.nature-source.com /canyondiablo.htm (380 words)

	Nuggethunting Forums > Canyon Diablo Meteorite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thought I'd post a pic of a Canyon Diablo meteorite from Meteor Crater, Arizona - I bought this from Robert Haag well over 20 yrs ago.
		I also have a couple of the Iron's from Canyon Diablo, but they are a bit smaller than yours.
		I have heard over the years people have found them further down the canyon, but I also heard the area is surrounded by State Land and a lot of Private Ranches.
	www.nuggethunting.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2901.html (303 words)

	Meteorite Jewelry, Holiday Gifts, Meteorite Gift Ideas, Pendants, Canyon Diablo, Sikhote-Alin
		The Sikhote-Alin meteorite was seen to fall on February 12, 1947.
		The beads are fashioned from the NWA 869 stone meteorite.
		We are pleased to offer a limited number of one-of-a-kind authentic meteorite jewelry pieces in association with noted designer and silversmith Lisa Marie Morrison of Sirocco Design in Tucson, AZ.
	www.aerolite.org /meteorite-jewelry.htm (437 words)

	Artifacts
		Found just west of Canyon Diablo near Meteor Crater, Arizona in 1897, about 4-5 billion years old.
		The original meteorite was about 30 m (100 ft.) in diameter.
		Although most of the meteorite vaporized on impact, more than 20,000 fragments have been recovered.
	2k.si.edu /2ksearch/Low_Artifacts.asp?ObjectData_Action=Find('ID','d235') (121 words)

	Meteorites
		The first known meteorites from Arizona were found in the 1880s by sheepherders in Canyon Diablo, several miles west of Meteor Crater, which was known during those times to area cattlemen and settlers as Coon Butte.
		Meteor Crater, located about 20 miles west of Winslow, Arizona was regarded by most geologists as volcanic in origin until the 1950s when geology graduate student Eugene Shoemaker began adding new studies and evidence to support the theories and pioneering work in the early 1900s of Daniel Barringer.
		The explosion at the moment of impact is estimated to have been the equivalent of a 1.7 megaton bomb, creating an impact crater nearly a mile in diameter.
	www.arizonaminerals.com /specimens_meteorite.shtml (615 words)

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